Bruce E. Baker is Reader in American History at Newcastle University. He is the author of What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (2007) and coeditor of ...view moreBruce E. Baker is Reader in American History at Newcastle University. He is the author of What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (2007) and coeditor of After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South (2013); he has also written several other books and articles covering Reconstruction, labor history, lynching, and the cotton trade.view less