Lendol Calder is Professor of History at Augustana College, Illinois. His essay “The Stories We Tell” (OAH Magazine of History, 2013) won the American Historical Association's William and Edwyna Gilbert Prize, which honors the best article of the year on the teaching of history.

Lawrence Charap is Director for Curriculum and Content Development, History/Social Sciences, with the Advanced Placement Program of the College Board. Prior to joining the College Board, he received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, writing his dissertation on Jewish-Christian interfaith dialogue at the turn of the twentieth century.

Megan Elias is Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She is the author of books about home economics and American food history. She is currently working on a history of American cookbooks.

Carole Emberton is Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). She is the author of Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War (2013).

Timothy J. Gilfoyle is the author of City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920 (1992) and professor and former chair of the history department at Loyola University Chicago. He is the current president of the Urban History Association.

Brenna Wynn Greer is the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of History at Wellesley College. She is a historian of race, gender, and culture in the twentieth-century United States, with a focus on African American business and visual culture. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Image Matters: Black Representation Politics, Capitalism, and Civil Rights Work in the Mid-Twentieth Century United States.

Paul A. Kramer is an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines (2006). He is currently at work on a book on the geopolitics of U.S. immigration policy across the twentieth century.

Mary Lopez has taught U.S. History and American Studies at all levels at Schaumburg High School for twenty years. She earned her BA in History from the University of Illinois, her MA in History from DePaul University, and has completed her coursework in the PhD program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Richard L. McCormick is President Emeritus of Rutgers University where he also serves as a University Professor and Board of Governors Professor of History and Education. He has published several books, including From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State, 1893–1910 (1981); The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics fromthe Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (1986); and Raised at Rutgers: A President's Story (2014). He is working on a history of anticorruption in America.

William McGovern is a PhD candidate at the University of California at San Diego and a dissertation fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. His dissertation is entitled “Street Children: St. Louis and the Transformation of American Reform, 1850–1880.”

Louise M. Newman is Associate Professor of U.S. History at the University of Florida and author of White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States (Oxford, 1999).

Brenda Santos is Academic Dean at Amistad High School in New Haven, CT. She began teaching APUSH in 2000 in the Bronx, New York, and has been formally training and coaching teachers since 2006. She has taught at both Southern Connecticut State and Yale Universities. She served on the College Board's APUSH Test Development Committee from 2010 to 2013 and began her term as a member of the American Historical Association Council and the Association's Teaching Division in January 2015.

Jeremy A. Stern holds a PhD in Early American History from Princeton University. As an independent historian and history education consultant, he has produced and reviewed educational materials for organizations including Great Minds, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Core Knowledge Foundation, and several state governments.

Saul Straussman is in his tenth year as a teacher at Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh (PA) Public Schools. For the past nine years he has taught AP U.S. History, in addition to a variety of other courses including AP European History, U.S. History, World History, and AP Psychology. Before life as a full-time educator, Saul worked in public relations and marketing for more than a decade, teaching communications majors how to write a press release. He has two children who are graduates of PPS. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Kellee, and their dog Rita and cat Earl.

Trygve Throntveit received his PhD in History from Harvard University and has taught courses in the intellectual, political, and international history at Harvard and Dartmouth Colleges. An independent scholar, he has published essays in several academic collections and journals, including The Journal of the History of Ideas, Modern Intellectual History, and Political Science Quarterly. He is author of two forthcoming books: William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic (Palgrave Macmillan) and Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment.

Michael Trotti is Professor of History at Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York. He is the author of The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South (2008) and is at work on a study of race and capital punishment in the postwar South.

Benjamin J. Wetzel received his BA at Grove City College and his MA at Baylor University. He is currently a PhD candidate in History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a working on a dissertation tentatively titled “‘A Sane Americanism’: Lyman Abbott, Christian Nationalism, and American Warfare, 1861–1918.” He has previously published in the Journal of Church & State and The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism (2012).

Jeremy C. Young is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. His forthcoming book, The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870–1940, argues that the modern relationship between leaders and followers in America grew out of a unique group of charismatic social movements prominent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His article, “Empowering Passivity: Women Spiritualists, Houdini, and the 1926 Fortune Telling Hearing,” was published in Journal of Social History in 2014.

Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of Education and History and a department chair at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Zimmerman also holds a position in the Department of History of NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher, Zimmerman is the author of Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education (2015) and four other books. Zimmerman is also a frequent op-ed contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other popular newspapers and magazines. He appears every other week on WHYY, Philadelphia's National Public Radio affiliate, to discuss contemporary events in their historical contexts. In 2008, Zimmerman received NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award.