Linda Diane Barnes obtained her Ph.D. in History at the University of West Virginia and is currently an Associate Professor at Youngstown State University. She is also the Editor in Chief of the academic journal Ohio History. [1] She is author of Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, March 2008). She is also co-editor (with John R. McKivigan) of The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series III: Correspondence, Volume 1, 1842-1852 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) and Co-editor (with Paul Finkelman) of The Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Colonial Period through the Age of Frederick Douglass, 1619-1895 (3 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).[2]