Rob Orrison

Rob received his Bachelor’s Degree in Historic Preservation at Longwood University and received his Master’s Degree in Public History from George Mason University. Currently Rob serves as the Director for the Prince William County Office of Historic Preservation. Rob also serves on the Board of Directors of the Frontier Culture Museum and serves as the […]

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Robert Lee Hodge

Robert Lee, a living historian well known in reenacting circles for his devotion to accuracy, has also worked passionately in the preservation community for nearly three decades. In 1999, Rob came to national prominence upon the publication of Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic; Rob appeared as a major character in the book and also […]

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Sarah Kay Bierle

Former Managing Editor Sarah Kay Bierle has a B.A. in History from Thomas Edison State University and is currently working in the American Battlefield Trust’s Education Department. “History, research, and writing are my passion,” she says. “I desire to make history more understandable and accessible to Americans who stumble through school thinking history is a […]

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Sheritta Bitikofer

Sheritta Bitikofer is a lifelong student of history. From an early age, her parents indulged her interests by buying her first history books and taking her to museums and historic sites around the south. Her attraction to the Civil War began in middle school when her history teacher read from a copy of “The Unknown […]

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Steve Davis

Stephen Davis, Emerging Civil War’s book review editor, has been lauded for his writing as a recipient of the Fletcher Pratt Award, the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award. He is author of seven books on the Atlanta Campaign: Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood (20120); From Texas Brigadier to the […]

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Steward Henderson

Steward Henderson is a park ranger/historian with the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.  He has been in this capacity since May 2007, after spending 2 years as a volunteer.  Steward retired from Sun Trust Bank as a Senior Vice President in the Retail Group of the Greater Washington Region in 2005, after a 35 […]

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Todd Arrington

Todd is a career National Park Service historian, park ranger, and manager with more than twenty years of federal service. He has worked in four different historical parks and is currently the Site Manager of James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio.  He credits his family’s move to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania when he was […]

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