James H. Johnston is a lawyer, writer, and historian in Washington DC. He is the coauthor of The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough: A Southern Woman’s Memories of Richmond, VA, and Washington, DC, in the Civil War and the author of From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, White House History, the Legal Times of Washington, American Lawyer, and the Maryland Historical Society Magazine.