About Robert E. Bonner Robert Bonner is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in the Dartmouth history department and author of Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood. Books by Robert E. Bonner Remaking North American Sovereignty State Transformation in the 1860s contributions by Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers, Robert E. Bonner, Christopher Clark, Jane Dinwoodie, Steven Hahn, Ryan Hall, Benjamin Johnson, Pablo Mijangos, Mary Ryan, Andrew Smith & Marcela Terrazas y Basante series edited by Andrew L. Slap