Martha Hodes is Professor of History at New York University. She is most recently the author of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering (HarperCollins), which was excerpted in the New Yorker and named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. Her previous book, Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press), won the Lincoln Prize and was named an Editor’s Choice in the New York Times Book Review, and a Best Book of the Year by the Wall Street Journal. She is also the author of two more award-winning books, The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (W. W. Norton) and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (Yale University Press). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard University, the Fulbright Program, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Whiting Foundation, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library.