Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner is a Professor of History and Curator of the Quaker Collection at Haverford College. After receiving her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, she taught at Temple University for almost two decades. Her recent publications include Quaker Aesthetics, coauthored with Ann Verplanck, and Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880, coedited with Margaret Hope Bacon.

Randy Roberts, Professor of History at Purdue University, specializes in twentieth-century American history and the history of popular culture. He has written, cowritten, or edited more than 20 books, including biographies of John Wayne, Jack Johnson, and Oscar Robertson. He has also written histories of American sports and of the Vietnam War. His books have been nominated for and won a number of national prizes. At Purdue University, he has won the University Teacher of the Year award. He has also appeared frequently on the History Channel and in documentaries for HBO, NBC, ESPN, and PBS.

Peter B. Levy is a Full Professor in the Department of History at York College of Pennsylvania, where he teachers a wide variety of courses in American history. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of eight books and many articles, including: The New Left and Labor in the 1960s; Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland; and 100 Key Documents in American Democracy. He lives in Towson, Maryland, with his wife, two children, and a yellow Labrador.

Alan Taylor, Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, earned his Ph.D. in history from Brandeis University and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia. He teaches courses in early American history and the history of the American West. Taylor is the author of five books, including American Colonies and William Cooper's Town, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes, as well as the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for American history. He is a contributing editor for The New Republic.