Edward Blum is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Honors College at Baylor University. He received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Kentucky. His first book, When God Wept: Race, Religion, and the Reforging of the White Republic, 1865-1898, will be published shortly by Louisiana State University Press. He is currently working on a religious biography of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Dorothy M. Brown is Professor of History, Emerita, at Georgetown University. She is the co-author with Elizabeth McKeown of The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare (1997).

Jill Frahm is an independent scholar and a former Senior Historian at NSA.  She has an M.A. in History from the University of Maryland at Baltimore County.  Her article on the World War I "Hello Girls" is based on her thesis.

Lynne M. Getz is Associate Professor of History at Appalachian State University. Her teaching and research interests include American social and intellectual history since the Civil War. She is the author of Schools of Their Own: The Education of Hispanos in New Mexico, 1850-1940 (1997).

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