Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War

Paul D. Moreno is the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in the American Constitution and is the Dean of Faculty at Hillsdale College. He is the author of From Direct Actionto Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, and Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History, both published by Louisiana State University Press. He has written A Concise History of the American Constitution for the National Association of Scholars. He completed his PhD under the direction of Herman Belz at the University of Maryland in 1994.Johnathan O'Neill is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History (2005) and co-editor (with Gary L. McDowell) of a multiauthor essay collection, America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism (2006). His articles have appeared in the Review of Politics, the Modern Law Review, and the Northwestern University Law Review. His current research is on Constitutionalism and American Conservatism in the Twentieth Century, and articles related to this project have been published in the Journal of Church and State, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, and The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. He completed his PhD under the direction of Herman Belz at the University of Maryland in 2000.