Donald R. Shaffer received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Maryland, College Park.His scholarly work to date primarily addresses the experience of African Americans following the the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). Dr. Shaffer's first book, After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans, was published in 2004 by the University Press of Kansas. It won the 2005 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship. Dr. Shaffer has just completed, with Elizabeth Regosin of St. Lawrence University, a primary source reader on Civil War pension files as they pertain to the experiences of former slaves. This publication, titled Voices of Emancipation, was published on May 24, 2008 by NYU Press.Dr. Shaffer gave his most recent academic paper at Harvard University's Freedom Rising Symposium. He also participated as a presenter at the NEH Teachers' Institute, "Race and Politics in the American Civil War" at the New York Historical Society in New York City. Dr. Shaffer also has delivered other papers in the past at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, and the Society for Military History. Dr. Shaffer also has been a fellow at the West Point Summer Seminar in Military History at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.Specialties: United States History (Nineteenth Century, Social, African American, Military)