Scott HancockScott Hancock is an associate professor of history and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College. After spending 14 years working with teenagers in crisis, he switched careers and received a Ph.D. in Early American History in 1999 from the Univerity of New Hampshire. This combination of careers fuels his desire to tell the stories of people whom society and history have tended to discount as troublesome and unimportant. Currently, he is exploring how whiteness, white supremacy and the systematic rejection of blackness were the unifying features of white American identity and politics across the North-South divide, and how that unity was manifested during the creation of Civil War battlefields. Some of his work scholarly work has appeared in the anthologies Paths to Freedom, We Shall Independent Be, Slavery, Resistance, Freedom, and in the Journal Civil War History. As part of trying to continue being an activist scholar, he engages in dialogue with visitors to the Gettysburg battlefields, as well as contributing to local & regional newspapers such as the Gettysburg Times and Philadelphia Inquirer or online publications such as CityLab. Read More Read Less