Lincoln Hirn is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at the University of Connecticut, where he studies the literary memory of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation that charts the evolution of the slave narrative, as a literary form, across the postbellum period. He is the author of the article “‘In the Name of God and Truth’: The Slave Narrative at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” which appeared in the January 2026 issue of 19th Century Studies.