About Alice Baumgartner Alice L. Baumgartner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Roadto the Civil War (Basic Books, 2020). Books by Alice Baumgartner Continent in Crisis The U.S. Civil War in North America contributions by Brian Schoen, Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers, Alice Baumgartner, Beau D. Cleland, Susan-Mary Grant, Amy Greenberg, John Craig Hammond, John W. Quist & Andrew L. Slap
