Reconstruction
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Dr. Frank Varney
Frank Varney earned his undergraduate degree at William Paterson University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Cornell University. He regularly leads student groups to historic sites—especially Civil War battlefields—and frequently speaks at Civil War roundtables, historical societies, and other organizations. He has also served as keynote speaker at several veterans’ memorials. A briefly retired Distinguished Professor of History, Dr. Varney returned to teaching after receiving an offer too good to refuse. He currently teaches U.S. and Classical History at St. Michael’s College in Vermont. In addition to writing numerous appendices, chapters, introductions, and articles for works by other historians, Dr. Varney is the author of General Grant and the Rewriting of History (2013) and General Grant and the Verdict of History (2023).

Jay Solomon
Jay Solomon is one of the U.S.’s premier investigative journalists and writers, with a global track record that goes back nearly 30 years. He was The Wall Street Journal’s chief foreign affairs correspondent for over a decade, during which he broke some of Washington’s largest stories, such as the Obama administration’s secret cash shipments to Iran. He also served tours in the Middle East, India, and East Asia. He’s an expert on international sanctions, illicit finance, nuclear proliferation, and cyber warfare.