THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY

Harvey Strum is a professor of history and political science at Russell Sage College, and program director for history. His research interests include the early national period, American and Canadian aid to Ireland in 1847, 1863, and 1880, American Jewish history, and anti-Catholicism in New Jersey, 1820-1870.

Paul Teed is Professor of History at Saginaw Valley State University where he has taught since 1997. He is the author of Joseph and Harriet Hawley’s Civil War (2019), A Revolutionary Conscience: Theodore Parker and Antebellum America (2012), John Quincy Adams: Yankee Nationalist (2006), as well as coauthor of Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South (2020) and Reconstruction: Guides to Historical Events in America (2015).  He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of the Early Republic, Civil War History, Connecticut History, and American Studies.  He has won several awards for his teaching and scholarship including Distinguished Professor of the Year, from the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan in 2012.  His current project is a study of radical antislavery activism among midwestern Presbyterians in the antebellum era.