Gregory P. Downs

Gregory P. Downs is professor of history at University of California, Davis. He is the author of three books on the Civil War Era and a book of short stories, as well as many op-eds for leading newspapers. He is co-editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era. Downs assisted in the completion of Nat Turner, Black Prophet which represents the research of Anthony E. Kaye (1962–2017). Dr. Kaye taught history at Pennsylvania State University and was the vice president of scholarly programs at the National Humanities Center. Kaye was an influential scholar of Atlantic slavery and American history, and the author of a prior well-regarded history of enslaved people and their understanding of space and place, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. He also served as an associate editor of The Journal of the Civil War Era and was an editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project.