Lisa Andersen is an assistant professor of liberal arts and history at the Juilliard School. She is revising a manuscript on the Prohibition Party and American party politics.
Brian J. Cook is professor and chair of the Center for Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. He has published extensively on Woodrow Wilson's ideas about public administration and democratic governance, including Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management (2007).
Lynn Dumenil, Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College, is author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995) and Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880–1930 (1984) and is coauthor of Through Women's Eyes: An American History (2005 and 2009). Her article in this issue draws upon her current book project, Women, World War I, and the Emergence of Modern American Culture. She has been a Fulbright professor at both the University of Helsinki and the University of Rome.
Thomas D. Fallace is an assistant professor in the College of Education, William Paterson University of New Jersey. He is the author of The Emergence of Holocaust Education in American Schools (2008) and Dewey and the Dilemma of Race: An Intellectual History, 1895–1922 (2010).
Angela Firkus is Claire Dooner Phillips Chair in Social Science and associate professor of history at Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri. Her research focuses on race in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Her article on Native Americans and the state agricultural extension program in Wisconsin appeared in the October 2010 issue of this journal.
Benjamin Johnson is associate professor of history and associate director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. His publications include Revolution in Texas: How A Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (2003) and Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place (2008). He is at work on a synthetic history of Progressive Era environmental politics.
Russell L. Johnson earned his PhD at the University of Iowa and has taught at Bilkent University in Turkey and the University of Otago in New Zealand, where he is currently a senior lecturer in U.S. history. His first book, Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban–Industrial Society in a Northern City (2003), won the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Prize of the State Historical Society of Iowa for the most significant book on Iowa history published that year. He is working on a history of the Civil War pension system from the bottom up.
Dan Margolies is professor of history at Virginia Wesleyan College and author of Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization (2006). His new book, a history of legal spatiality and extradition in U.S. foreign relations between 1877 and 1898, will be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2011.
Amanda Kay McVety is an assistant professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She researches American involvement in the Horn of Africa and the use of foreign aid as a tool of foreign policy. Her first book, Enlightened Aid, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Regina Morantz-Sanchez is professor of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her publications include In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Women Physicians (1984), Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine (1985, 2000), and Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn of the Century Brooklyn (1999). She is working on a study of immigrants, intermarriage, and socialist radicalism in the Progressive Era.
