Roger L. Ransom

Roger L. Ransom is Distinguished Professor of History and Economics and Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside. He is best known for his work with Richard Sutch on the American Civil War, and his many publications include the books One Kind of Freedom (co-authored with Richard Sutch Cambridge, 2001), Conflict and Compromise (Cambridge, 1990), and The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been (2005). He was President of the Economic History Association in 2005 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Riverside. He also won the Arthur H. Cole Prize from the Economic History Association and the Clio Can Award from the Cliometric Society.

Jared McKenzie is a recent graduate of the University of Riverside California. He is eager to apply what he has learned to the publication of a book. He has worked with Roger Ransom on a variety of his previous works dealing with the First World War. This is his first major work in economic history. He brings his background as a creative writer to the cliometric analysis of history.