Jean Harvey Baker
Jean Harvey Baker is the author of many books on nineteenth-century American history. She is a professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.
Books by Jean Harvey Baker
Long considered the standard text in the field, The Civil War and
Reconstruction—originally written by James G. Randall and revised by
David Donald—is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition
prepared by David Donald, Jean H. Baker, and Michael F. Holt.More
"Absorbing and convincing ... a major contribution to Lincolniana."—David H. Donald, author of LincolnMore
"[A] sweeping narrative, beautifully written and scrupulously evenhanded, [that] does full justice to Stevenson and his people. . . . Ambitious, elegiac, and provocative."--Richard Norton Smith, Chicago Tribune, front page reviewMore