Joshua Brown is executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is author of Beyond the Lines:  Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (2002), co-author of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2005), co-producer of award-winning digital and documentary projects, and an illustrator/cartoonist. The recipient of grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and American Council of Learned Societies, his current project is a study of the visual culture of the American Civil War.

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