Tracy Campbell is a professor of history and co-director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center at the University of Kentucky. His most recent book is Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition (2005).

Maureen A. Flanagan is the outgoing president of SHGAPE, founding editor of this journal, and currently chair of the Humanities Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Professor Flanagan's many writings revolve around issues of urbanization, gender, and reform. Her essay, a revision of her 2012 SHGAPE presidential address, draws from her current book project, a comparative study of gender and the urban built environment in Chicago, Dublin, London, and Toronto from the 1870s to the 1940s.

Michael S. Green is a professor of history at the College of Southern Nevada. His recent publications include Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War (2010) and Lincoln and the Election of 1860 (2011).

Adam J. Hodges is an associate professor of history at the University of Houston—Clear Lake. He has published articles in this journal, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and Planning Perspectives. He is the author of the Red Scare chapter in the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Woodrow Wilson and is completing a monograph entitled World War I and Urban Order: The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization.

Joseph A. McCartin is an associate professor of history and director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. His most recent book is Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (2011).

Brooke Speer Orr is an associate professor of history at Westfield State University in Massachusetts. She is writing a book called The “People's Joan of Arc”: Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics, and the Populist Party in Gilded Age America.

Jessica Pliley, assistant professor of women's history at Texas State University in San Marcos, earned her PhD from the Ohio State University. Her current book manuscript, “Beyond White Slavery: Policing Women and the Growth of the FBI, 1900–1941,” examines the origins and enforcement of the United States's 1910 White Slave Traffic Act. Her publications include “Claims to Protection: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Abolitionism in the League of Nations' Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children, 1919–1937,” Journal of Women's History (Winter 2010).

John F. Reynolds is a professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he specializes in political reform and electoral behavior during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He has authored The Demise of the American Convention System, 1880–1911 (2006), among other works.

Jeremy Rich is an associate professor of social sciences at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous articles and book chapters on Gabonese and Congolese history. His article in this issue derives from his second book, Missing Links: The African and American Worlds of R.L. Garner, Primate Collector, published in 2012. His current research explores the role of humanitarian organizations in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1960 to 1990.

Nancy C. Unger is an associate professor of history at Santa Clara University and review editor of this journal. She is the author of Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (revised edition, 2008) and Beyond “Nature's Housekeepers”: American Women in Environmental History (2012).