Steven Hahn received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is a specialist on history of nineteenth-century America, African-American history, the history of the American South, and the international history of slavery and emancipation. He is the author of The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (Oxford University Press, 1983), which received both the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians, as well as of articles that have appeared inPast and Present, the American Historical Review, and the Journal of Southern History. He is also the coeditor (with Jonathan Prude) of The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America (University of North Carolina Press, 1985); and (with Steven Miller, Susan O'Donovan, John Rodrigue, and Leslie Rowland) Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series III: Land and Labor in 1865 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).