John W. QuistJohn W. Quist is a professor of history at Shippensburg University. He is the author of Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan and coeditor of James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War. Books by the Author Previous slide in carousel Continent in Crisis Continent in Crisis Michigan’s War Michigan's War James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War Next slide in carousel