In 2024 the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, with tthe help of Dean Herrin, completed an update to the Crossroads website. The website was designed by Enforme, Inc., Frederick, Maryland. The update’s Principle Investigator was Edith B. Wallace, independent historian. Emily Huebner served as Project Director.
The Crossroads of War and Freedom update was guided by Dean Herrin, with input from an Advisory Council that included the following: Mary Ann Ashcraft, Jody Brumage, Anthony Cohen, Damita Drayton Green, Drew Gruber, Christopher Haley, Elizabeth Howe, Leone Kahill-Trout, Emily Kambic, Scott keefer, Catherine Mägi, Barbara Powell, Katie Reichard, and Susan Trail.
Special thanks to Mary Ann Ashcraft for contributing written content, research, and edits to the updated website. David H. Wallace contributed many transcriptions to the new “Firsthand Accounts” entries added in 2024. Leone Kahill-Trout also contributed transcriptions to “Firsthand Accounts”. The Union Mills Homestead generously provided information and images to the updated website’s “The View from the Attic” essay. Dean Herrin Researched and compiled information for the “Freedmen’s Bureau School” records.
The following people contributed to the original Crossroads of War essays in 2012 (all affiliations noted below are as of the release date of the original Crossroads website):
- Dean Herrin, Ph.D., National Park Service Historian and Co-Coordinator, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies
- Donald Stelluto, Ph.D., Associate Director Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Notre Dame University
- Barbara Powell, Ph.D., Co-Coordinator, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies and Adjunct Professor Hood College
- Michael Powell, Ph.D, J.D., Professor of History at Frederick Community College and co-editor of Mid-Maryland: A Crossroads of History: Conflict, Growth, and Change (2008). Dr. Powell would like to acknowledge the assistance of Andrew Borsa and Sanna Sayed, interns at the Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, for help with research
- Carol Reardon, Ph.D., Professor of History at Penn State University and author of numerous publications on the American Civil War, including Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory (1997)
- Terry Reimer, Director of Research, National Museum of Civil War Museum, Frederick, Maryland and author of One Vast Hospital: The Civil War Hospital Sites in Frederick, Maryland after Antietam (2001)
- Timothy Snyder, M.A., author of Trembling in the Balance: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal During the Civil War (2011)
- Edith B. Wallace, M.A., Historical Research and Historic Context Development Services, Paula S. Reed and Associates, Inc., Hagerstown, Maryland
