E. MERTON COULTER (1890-1981) was an American historian and writer of the South, American Civil War, and Reconstruction, publishing twenty-six books on the subjects. He was a founding member of the Southern Historical Association. For forty years, he was a professor at the University of Georgia, where he was chair of the Department of History for eighteen years; for fifty years, he was editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly.JULIE ANNE SWEET is a professor of history at Baylor University. She is author of William Stephens: Georgia’s Forgotten Founder and Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752.