James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. An historian and full-time writer, he is author of The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, Great Heart: the History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge), and other books.

William E. Gienapp has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the University of Wyoming before moving to Harvard University, where he is now Professor of History. In 1988, he received the Avery O. Craven Award for his book The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. His essay, "The Antebellum Era", appeared in the Encyclopedia of Social History (1992).

Christine Leigh Heyrman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. Most recently, she has written Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1997, Knopf), a book about the evolution of religious culture in the Southern U.S.

Mark H. Lytle received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies as well as Chair of the American Studies Program at Bard College. He is also Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson) and, most recently, "An Environmental Approach to American Diplomatic History" in Diplomatic History. He is at work on The Uncivil War: America in the Vietnam Era.

Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a Ph.D. from Yale University, he has received many teaching awards, most recently the Friars' Centennial Teaching Excellence Award (1996). He is the author of Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil, 1941-1947 and co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age.

Brian DeLay (Ph.D., Harvard; Assistant Professor) Professor DeLay teaches classes on Native American history, inter-ethnic borderlands, the American Southwest to 1900, and contact-era history in the Americas. He specializes in nineteenth-century United States and Mexican history, and has a particular interest in connections between independent native peoples and the interlocked histories of American nation states. His dissertation, "The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Politics in the Era of the U.S.-Mexican War," has won awards from Harvard University and Phi Alpha Theta/Westerners International. He spent the academic year 2005-06' as a fellow at the Clements Center for the Southwest at Southern Methodist University, revising his book manuscript for Yale University Press. He has two articles forthcoming this year: "Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War," American Historical Review, Feb. 2007; and "The Wider World of the Handsome Man: Southern Plains Indians Invade Mexico, 1830-1846," Journal of the Early Republic, spring 2007. His next project will be a study of the international arms trade and Indian freedoms in the Americas during the long nineteenth century. He can be reached at Brian.DeLay at Colorado.EDU and his website is http://www.colorado.edu/history/delay