Jacob F. Lee – Matthew E. Stanley

Jacob F. Lee is assistant professor of history at Penn State University focusing colonialism and borderlands in early America. His book, Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi (Harvard University Press, 2019), won the 2019 Jon Gjerde Prize in Midwest History.   Matthew E. Stanley is assistant professor of history at Albany State University.  He is the author of three books on war and memory, including the forthcoming Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War (University of Illinois Press, 2021).  

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