2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4274
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: lrowland@umd.edu

           A specialist in the transition from slavery to freedom in the U.S. South, Leslie Rowland directs the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, which is publishing Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. She is coeditor, coauthor, or author of nine books and thirteen articles, including four volumes of Freedom (1982, 1985, 1990, 1993, Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992), Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (1992), Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era (1997), and Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War (1998). Land and Labor, 1865, the first volume of Freedom pertaining to the Reconstruction years, will be published in 2007 by the University of North Carolina Press. Among the honors she has received are the J. Franklin Jameson Prize of the American Historical Association, the Lincoln Prize for excellence in Civil War studies, and the Thomas Jefferson Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government. She regularly makes public presentations related to the work of the Freedmen Project and has conducted numerous national institutes and local workshops for secondary-school teachers. She served as president of the Association for Documentary Editing in 1998-99 and has chaired book-prize committees for the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Southern Association for Women Historians.

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