Mark V. Barrow, Jr., is a Professor of History at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Shana Bernstein is Clinical Associate Professor of Legal Studies and American Studies at Northwestern University. She first came to Northwestern as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latino Studies after completing her history doctorate at Stanford. She joined Southwestern University's history department as an Assistant, and later Associate, Professor before rejoining the Northwestern faculty in 2014. Her first book, Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2011), reinterprets U.S. civil rights activism by revealing its roots in the interracial efforts of Mexican, Jewish, African, and Japanese Americans in mid-century Los Angeles; and showing how the early Cold War facilitated, rather than derailed, some forms of activism. Bernstein is currently working on a book project titled An Environmental, Labor, and Consumer History of the Strawberry.

Rosanne Currarino studies the cultural economy of Gilded Age America. She teaches U.S. History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Robert D. Bland is an Assistant Professor of African American history at St. John's University.

Jeffrey Scott Brown is Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick. His dissertation explored the influence of vitalist theories of mind and metaphysics on American intellectual and political culture early in the twentieth century. He is currently preparing this work for publication under the title Vital Moment: The Philosophy of Life and the Politics of Meaning in Modern America, 1900–1925.

Reginald K. Ellis is an Associate Professor of History at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. His recently published book is Between Washington and Du Bois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard (University Press of Florida, 2017).

Mary O. Furner is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865–1905 (University Press of Kentucky, 1975), with a new Introduction (New York: Transaction Press, 2010); “From ‘State Interference’ to the ‘Return to the Market’: The Rhetoric of Economic Regulation From the Old Gilded Age to the New” in Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, eds. Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press, 2010); “Considering Thomas Piketty, Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century,” H-France Salon 7:2 (2015). She coedited The State and Economic Knowledge: The American and British Experiences, eds. Mary O. Furner and Barry Supple (Cambridge University Press, 1990), and of The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States, eds. Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner (Cambridge University Press, 1993). Her current project is titled The Public and Its Limits: Statism and Anti-statism in the American Political Tradition.

Tammy Ingram is an Associate Professor of history at the College of Charleston. She writes about politics, infrastructure, and crime and punishment in the modern South. Her first book, Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, was published by UNC Press in 2014. She is currently working on a new book called The Wickedest City in America: Sex, Race, and Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South.

Marvin McAllister is an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) and White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies And Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African and American Theater (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

Christoph Nitschke is a Doctoral Student (DPhil) of History at the University of Oxford. He holds an MSt in U.S. History from the University of Oxford, and a BA in History from the University of Bonn. His current research focuses on the Panic of 1873 and U.S. foreign relations.

Thomas R. Pegram is Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois, 1870–1922 (University of Illinois Press, 1992); Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1830–1933 (Ivan R. Dee, 1998); and One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s (Ivan R. Dee, 2011).

Jessica R. Pliley is an Associate Professor of Women's and Gender History at Texas State University. She is the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Harvard University Press, 2014) and coeditor of Global Anti-Vice Activism: Fighting Drink, Drugs, and ‘Immorality’ (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She is the book review editor of the Journal of Women's History and co-organizer of the Gilder Lerhman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition's Working Group on Modern Slavery and Trafficking at Yale University.

Nina Silber is a Professor of History at Boston University. She has been teaching and researching about matters related to the U.S. Civil War, the Civil War in memory, and U.S. women's history, for the past twenty-seven years. Her books include The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South (University of North Carolina Press,1993); Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (Oxford University Press,1992); Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (Harvard University Press, 2005); and Gender and the Sectional Conflict (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Her forthcoming book, Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America, explores the cultural politics related to the way the Civil War was remembered, by Popular Fronters, Lost Causers, African Americans, and anti-Communists, in the New Deal era. She is also the incoming president of the Society of Civil War Historians.

Stephen K. Stein earned his PhD in Military History from the Ohio State University and is currently the Associate Chair of the History Department of the University of Memphis. His latest book is The Sea in World History: Exploration, Travel, and Trade (ABC-CLIO, 2017).

Sarah Steinbock-Pratt is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama. Her current project investigates the role that American teachers played in the building of a colonial system of education in the Philippines from 1901 to 1945.

Ian Tyrrell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; a former Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University; and the author of Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire (Princeton University Press, 2010); and Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Drew VandeCreek is Director of Digital Scholarship and Co-Director of the Digital Convergence Lab at Northern Illinois University Libraries and a member of the Graduate Faculty of that university's College of Arts and Sciences. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster and holds a PhD in American History from the University of Virginia.