Kathleen Diffley, Iowa City, Iowa, is associate professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876 and editor of To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876.
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