Howell Keiser is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School. Keiser is an American Historian of the nineteenth-century United States, with a focus on the Civil War Era, the U.S. South, and slavery. He previously served as the Editor of the Civil War Book Review and taught at the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia. His current research focuses on political and economic thought in the antebellum South. His writing has appeared in several journals, including Civil War History, American Nineteenth-Century History, and The Simms Review. He is also a contributor to RealClear History and the Emerging Civil War.