Foundations of American Democracy

W. Fitzhugh Brundage is the William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies American history since the Civil War with a particular focus on the American South. His works include Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (1993), The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (2005), and Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition (2018).

Kathleen DuVal is the Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies early America, particularly how various Native American, European, and African women and men interacted from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries. Her books include Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (2024) and Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (2015).

Joseph T. Glatthaar is the Stephenson Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies the American Civil War and American military history. His works include American Military History: A Very Short Introduction (2020) and General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse (2008).

Sophia Howells is the administrative support associate in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her Bachelor's degree in Global Studies from Carolina in 2012.

Miguel La Serna is the chairperson of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bowman & Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of History. His books include With Masses and Arms: Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (2020) and The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes (co-authored with Orin Starn 2019).