Charles B. Dew is a native Southerner and a historian of the South with two previous award-winning histories to his credit.

Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works (Library of Virginia, rev. ed. 1999) tells the story of the South's principal munitions maker during the Civil War. The original edition, published in 1966, won the Civil War Round Table of New York's annual Fletcher Pratt Award for the best nonfiction book on the war years.

Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge (Norton, cloth 1994, paper 1995) elucidates the complex interaction between white and black that constituted the inner core of the master-slave relationship by describing the working and living conditions of the slave ironworkers at an antebellum and Civil War era ironmaking and agricultural complex near Lexington in the Valley of Virginia. Dew follows the families of individual slave artisans over several generation and traces patterns of accomodation and resistance. Bond of Iron was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a finalist for the Lincoln Prize, and won the Elliot Rudwick Prize, awarded biennially by the Organization of American Historians for a book on the experience of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States.

Charles Dew is currently the W. Van Alan Clark Third Century Professor of Social Sciences at Williams College in Williamstown, MA, where he has taught for 24 years. He and his wife, the novelist Robb Forman Dew, currently share their home with two German shepherds, Leo and Alice. They are the parents of two grown sons, Steve and Jack.

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