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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2019

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Wesley R. Bishop is an Assistant Professor of History at Marian University in Northern Indianapolis. He currently is working on a manuscript about Coxey's Army of 1894, American populism, and the impact that political protest had on the creation of the New Deal.

Nathan Cardon is a Senior Lecturer in U.S. History and the co-director of the American and Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Oliver Charbonneau received his doctorate in 2016 from the University of Western Ontario. He teaches at Huron University College and King's University College, both in London, Ontario, Canada. His major project, Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World, explores four decades of U.S. imperial rule in the Islamic Philippines and will be published by Cornell University Press in 2020. He has written on Islamic colonial subjects in the United States for Diplomatic History and is contributing an essay to the forthcoming collection Powering up the Global: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain (Duke University Press, 2019).

Robert J. Cook teaches American History at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of several books and articles on nineteenth-century and Civil War-related topics including Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).

Frances Davey is an Assistant Professor of History at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. She received her PhD in the History of American Civilization from the University of Delaware. Her teaching and research interests focus on U.S. women's history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, material culture, and public/oral history. She is currently working on a manuscript titled All the Graces In One: The Development of Women's Collegiate Athletics through the 1930s, which investigates the impact of early collegiate athletics on popular concepts of womanhood.

Mark Elliott is the Associate Head of the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is currently working on a book project about the relationship of human rights and nationalism in nineteenth-century America.

Victoria Haskins is a Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. She has published widely on the history of domestic service and colonialism, particularly Indigenous domestic work in Australia and the United States. Her recent books include Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific (Bloomsbury, 2018) with Julia Martinez, Claire Lowrie, and Frances Steel; Colonization and Domestic Service (Routledge 2014), with Claire Lowrie; and Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson 1014–1934 (Arizona University Press, 2012).

Jason Hauser holds a PhD in American History from Mississippi State University. He currently works for the university's Research and Curriculum Unit.

Brian Masaru Hayashi is a Professor of History at Kent State University. His most recent book is Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment (Princeton University Press, 2004). He is currently working on the history of espionage during the Second World War.

Mallory L. Huard is a PhD Candidate in U.S. History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her dissertation examines the intersections of commercial imperialism and gender in mid-nineteenth century Hawai'i.

Michael J. Lansing is an Associate Professor at Augsburg University. He is the author, most recently, of Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Thomas R. Pegram is a Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. He published “The Ku Klux Klan, Labor, and the White Workings Class during the 1920s” in JGAPE in April 2018. He is also the author of One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s (Ivan Dee, 2011), Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800–1933 (Ivan Dee, 1998), and Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois, 1870–1922 (University of Illinois Press, 1992).

Michael Pierce is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas and author of Striking with the Ballot: Ohio Labor and the Populist Party (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010). His essays have appeared in Labor History, Agricultural History, the Journal of Southern History, and various edited volumes.

Khal Schneider is an Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. He writes about Indian policy and California Indian communities and their land.

Amy Sueyoshi is the Interim Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University with a joint faculty appointment in Sexuality Studies and Race and Resistance Studies. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Asian American and queer studies with particular focus on turn-of-the-century San Francisco. She has authored two books: Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi (University of Hawai'i Press, 2012) and Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American “Oriental” (University of Illinois Press, 2018).

Amy Murrell Taylor is an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky. Her latest book is Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

Ben Wright is a Graduate Student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His professional work has involved the relocation of Confederate statues from public spaces to museum settings. In that capacity he has been interviewed by USA Today, PRI, KUT, the London Times, and the BBC. His academic research currently focuses on the history and memory of violent conflict in Texas between the Civil War and World War I. More broadly, he is interested in the concept of defeat within American culture. He previously worked as a journalist and press secretary at the Texas state capitol. In 2008 he was awarded a Master's Degree in Modern History from King's College London. Originally from Leicester, England, he has been in Texas since 2003.