Susan-Mary Grant, profesora de Historia Norteamericana en la Universidad de Newcastle, es autora de North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (2000) y The War for a Nation: The American Civil War (2006), y editora de Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War (2003) y Themes of the American Civil War: The War Between the States (2010).