Kevin Adams is an Associate Professor of History at Kent State University. His book, Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870–1890 was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2009. He is currently writing a book on how the U.S. federal government sought to exercise expanded powers from Reconstruction through the labor wars of the 1890s.

Nathan G. Alexander completed his PhD in Modern History from the University of St Andrews in 2016.

David S. Allen is a Professor of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Democracy, Inc: The Press and Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere, published by the University of Illinois Press in 2005.

Marisa Chappell is Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University. She is the author of The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) and the co-author (with Premilla Nadasen and Jennifer Mittlestadt) of Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents (Routledge, 2009). Her current research interest is community organizing and grassroots campaigns for economic justice after the 1960s, an effort to uncover a hidden history of progressive activism in an era most noted for conservative political realignment, and to explore the complex racial and class politics that shaped the political left at the grassroots in the last three decades of the twentieth century.

Lawrence Charap is the Senior Director of the Advanced Placement Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Group at the College Board. He received his PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University.

Kathy J. Cooke is an American Historian and Historian of Science who studies the history of biology and agriculture in American history, especially breeding and social reform movements. In her ongoing scholarship, Cooke examines the relationship between late nineteenth-century “race betterment” movements and early twentieth-century American eugenics. In a related project, she is assessing the relationship between American sexual norms and efforts to breed “better” Americans. Cooke is also Professor of History and founding Dean of the Honors College at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama.

Jessica Derleth is a PhD candidate at Binghamton University (SUNY) who specializes in U.S. women and gender history. Her dissertation, titled “‘Silence Forever the Slander’: Gender as Political Strategy in the American Woman Suffrage Movement,” examines how suffragists co-opted and manipulated gender norms to promote votes for women. Her research was awarded the 2016 Carol Gold Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians and the 2017 Graduate Student Excellence Award in Research from Binghamton University. This research has been funded by the Huntington Library's Helen L. Bing Fellowship and the Virginia Historical Society's Mellon Research Fellowship. Her recent publications include “‘These Model Families’: Romance, Marriage, and Family in the New York Woman Suffrage Movement” in Votes for Women: Celebrating New York's Suffrage Centennial (State University of New York Press, 2017); “‘What Transferable Skills Do I Have?’: Preparing for Careers Within and Beyond the Academy” in AHA Today: A Blog of the American Historical Association (2017); and “Teaching Strategy: The League of Women Shoppers in Solidarity with Workers” in Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000 (Alexander Street Press, 2016). Her research and teaching interests encompass the history of femininity, masculinity, and gender performance; food; political activism, and social movements; sexuality; and gender and empire.

Nathalie Dessens is a Professor of American History and Civilization at the University of Toulouse (France). She has authored, among others, Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies (University Press of Florida, 2003), From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences (University Press of Florida, 2007), and Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans (University Press of Florida, 2015).

Faye Dudden is the Charles A. Dana Professor of History, Emerita, at Colgate University. She is the author of Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America (Oxford University Press, 2014), Women in the American Theater: Actresses and Audiences 1790–1870 (Yale University Press, 1997), and Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America (Wesleyan University Press, 1983).

Liette Gidlow is an Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University in Detroit. She is the author of The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s–1920s (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) and the editor of Obama, Clinton, Palin: Making History in 2008 (University of Illinois Press, 2012). She is at work on a history of the disfranchisement of U.S. women after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Darlene C. Goring is the Sam D'Amico Endowed Professor of Law and Nolan J. Edwards Professor of Law at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University.

David Huyssen is a Lecturer in American History at the University of York. He is the author of Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920, published by Harvard University Press in 2014.

Clint McDuffie teaches at Baker University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He received his PhD at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Kyle Pruitt is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Maryland, specializing in labor history and political economy.

Frank Schumacher is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of several books and is currently writing a book-length biographical essay on Theodore Roosevelt.

Jeffrey Trask is an Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University and author of Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).