Michael Perman received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation adviser was John Hope Franklin. He has taught at Ohio State University, Manchester University in England, and the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is currently professor of history and research professor in the humanities. His main publications include REUNION WITHOUT COMPROMISE: THE SOUTH AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1868 (1973); THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION: SOUTHERN POLITICS, 1869-1879 (1984); and EMANCIPATION AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1862-1879 (1987). He has also edited two volumes of readings in American history, PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN PAST and THE COMING OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Perman has won three book awards for THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION—the Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians, the Fred W. Morrison Prize of the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina Press, and the V.O. Key Prize of the Southern Political Science Association (co-winner). His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and he has been awarded fellowships by the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Thomas G. Paterson, professor emeritus of history at the University of Connecticut, graduated from the University of New Hampshire (B.A., 1963) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1968). He is the author of Soviet-American Confrontation (1973), Meeting the Communist Threat (1988), On Every Front (1992), Contesting Castro (1994), America Ascendant (with J. Garry Clifford, 1995), and A People and a Nation (with Mary Beth Norton et al., 2001). Tom is also the editor of Cold WarCritics (1971), Kennedy's Quest for Victory (1989), Imperial Surge (with Stephen G. Rabe, 1992), The Origins of the Cold War (with Robert McMahon, 1999), Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (with Michael J. Hogan, 2004), and Major Problems in American Foreign Relations (with Dennis Merrill, 2010). With Bruce Jentleson, he served as senior editor for the Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations (1997). A microfilm edition of The United States and Castro's Cuba, 1950s-1970s: The Paterson Collection appeared in 1999. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of American History and Diplomatic History. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he has directed National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers. In 2000 the New England History Teachers Association recognized his excellence in teaching and mentoring with the Kidger Award. Besides visits to many American campuses, Tom has lectured in Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Russia, and Venezuela. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, which in 2008 honored him with the Laura and Norman Graebner Award for "lifetime achievement" in scholarship, service, and teaching. A native of Oregon, Tom is now informally associated with Southern Oregon University.
