Kevin C. Armitage teaches in the Western Program of Individualized Studies at Miami University of Ohio. He is at the author of The Nature Study Movement: The Forgotten Popularizer of America's Conservation Ethic (University Press of Kansas, 2009). In 2017, his history of environmentalism, This Green and Growing Land, will be published by Rowman Littlefield.

Annette Atkins is Professor Emerita of History at Saint John's University and the College of Saint Benedict. Her books include Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out (Minnesota Historical Society, 2008 and 2016). She is currently writing Stepping into the Past: An American History through Shoes.

Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at Heidelberg University. His research interests comprise the history of the African American civil rights movement, race relations, popular violence, criminal justice, and U.S. foreign policy. His English-language monographs include The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration (University Press of Florida, 2005) and Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America (Government Institutes, 2011). Berg's biography of Woodrow Wilson (in German) is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2017.

Jørn Brøndal is Associate Professor in American History at the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890–1914 (Norwegian American Historical Association, 2004).

Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Toledo. His research explores officeholding practices in American political development, with a focus on wealth accumulation by party leaders during the late nineteenth century.

Becky Bruce is an Assistant Professor at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She has a PhD from the University of Alabama with a focus on the history of U.S. foreign relations. She is currently revising a book manuscript based on her dissertation about the annexation of Hawaii and is co-managing editor of the SWOSU Journal of Undergraduate Research.

Gregg Cantrell holds the Ralph and Erma Lowe Chair in Texas History at Texas Christian University. He is the author of Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas (Yale University Press, 1999) and is currently working on a history of the Texas Populist Party. He is a former president of the Texas State Historical Association.

James Deaville teaches at Carleton University in the School for Studies in Art and Culture: Music. His research has resulted in papers and publications on Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, and the New German School. He coedited a critical edition of the writings of Peter Cornelius, pupil of Liszt and friend of Wagner; and has been an active participant in the research project Neudeutsche Schule, based in Weimar and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Cody Dodge Ewert is a PhD candidate in History at New York University. His dissertation, “Making Schools American: Patriotism and the Politics of Public Education in the Progressive Era,” examines school reformers' attempts to stir popular support for universal public education in New York, Utah, and Texas. His research interests include political culture, nationalism, region, and schooling in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States.

Michael Fitzgerald is Professor of History at St. Olaf College. He is the author of The Union League Movement in the Deep South (LSU Press, 2000),Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile (LSU Press, 2002), and other works. His forthcoming book is Reconstruction in Alabama: From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South and will be published by LSU Press in the spring of 2017.

Jennifer Fronc is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Hilary N. Green is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at The University of Alabama. She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (Fordham University Press, 2016).

Robin Henry is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wichita State University. Her research and teaching focuses on the history of U.S. gender, sexuality, legal, and constitutional rights in the Progressive Era. Her work has appeared in several journals and essay collections; and her book, Criminalizing Sex, Defining Sexuality: Sexual Regulation and Masculinity in the American West, 1850–1927, is forthcoming in the winter of 2017.

Michael J. Lansing is Associate Professor of History at Augsburg College. His current project is The Cradle of Carbohydrates: Minneapolis and the Making of the World's Food, an environmental and urban history of the city's central role in the creation and propagation of carbohydrate-rich processed and packaged foods.

Sam Mitrani is an Associate Professor of History at College of DuPage. He earned his PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2011. His book The Rise of the Chicago Police Department, 1850–1894 was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2013.

Michael A. Ross is Professor of History at the University of Maryland at College Park where he teaches courses on the Civil War Era and U.S. Legal and Constitutional History. His most recent book is The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Elizabeth Sanders has taught and published on subjects including American political development, presidential politics, economic regulation, social movements, urban ecology, Southern politics, and domestic influences on foreign policy. Her book on the politics of energy regulation won the Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association in 1982. Her 1999 book, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State 1877–1917 (University of Chicago Press) was awarded the 2000 Greenstone Prize of the Politics and History Association of APSA.

John R. Thelin is a Professor at the University of Kentucky. He is author of A History of American Higher Education (2011) and Games Colleges Play (1996), both published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kidada E. Williams is Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University. Her first book, They Left Great Marks on Me (NYU Press, 2012), explores the vernacular history of black Southerners’ experiences of racial violence from emancipation to World War I and its link to the origins of the civil rights movement. Her current project investigates the ways that experiencing violence after the Civil War destabilized families transitioning from slavery to freedom.