John W. Quist is a professor of history at Shippensburg University. He is the author of
Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan
(Louisiana State University Press, 1998) and the editor or coeditor of several volumes,
including James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War (University Press of Florida,
2013) and Michigan’s War: The Civil War in Documents (Ohio University Press, 2019).