African Americans: A Concise History, Special Edition (3rd Edition)
Darlene Clark HineDarlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University.  She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past President of the Organization of American Historians and of the Southern Historical Association.  Hine received her BA at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and her MA and Ph.D. from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Hine has taught at South Carolina State University and at Purdue University. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. She is the author and/or co-editor of fifteen books, most recentlyThe Harvard Guide to African American History(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000) coedited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack. William C. HineWilliam C. Hine received his undergraduate education at Bowling Green State University, his master’s degree at the University of Wyoming, and his Ph.D. at Kent State University. He is a professor of history at South Carolina State University. He has had articles published in several journals, includingAgricultural History, Labor History, and theJournal of Southern History. He is currently writing a history of South Carolina State University. StanleyHarroldStanley Harrold, Professor of History at South Carolina State University, received his bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Kent State University. He is coeditor ofSouthern Dissent, a book series published by the University Press of Florida. He received during the 1990s two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships to pursue research dealing with the antislavery movement. In 2005 he received a Faculty Research Award from the NEH in support of his current research on physical conflict along America’s North-South sectional border from the 1780s to the Civil War.  He is the author of seven books, most recentlyCivil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader(Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 2007). He has published articles inCivil War History, Journal of Southern History, Radical History Review, andJournal of the Early Republic.