Cornelius J. Jaenen is professor emeritus of history at the University of Ottawa, from where he received his Ph.D. in 1963. He is author of numerous books and articles in colonial history, native studies and ethnic studies, and is much in demand internationally as a keynote speaker. He has served as founding president of the Canadian Historical Association, and president of the French Colonial Historical Society, and is presently honorary secretary of the Royal Society of Canada.
J.R. McNeill is an environmental historian at Georgetown University, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain (1985); The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History (1992); and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-century World (2000). He has held two Fulbright fellowships, a Guggenheim fellowship and, most recently, a Canterbury Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Thomas Thurston is a Research Fellow for the Institute of Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he directs the New Deal Network (http://newdeal.feri.org), an educational website on the New Deal Era, sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Humanities. A doctoral candidate in American studies from Yale University, his hypertext essay "Hearsay of the Sun: Photography, Identity, and the Law of Evidence in Nineteenth-Century American Courts," was recently published in American Quarterly's "Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies." (http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq/). He has developed websites for classrooms, educational organizations, labor and environmental groups, and campus organizations, and is currently president of the New York Metro American Studies Association.
John E. O'Connor is professor of history in the Federated Department of History of New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He is author/editor of eleven books and founder of the journal Film & History which he edited for twenty years. In 1991 the American Historical Association honored him with the creation of their annual John E. O'Connor Award for best film or television production about history.
Gregory S. Brown is assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas <http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/gbrown>. He teaches Western civilization, French history (including the French Revolution), European cultural history, and history and new media. He would like to thank Jack Censer, Lynn Hunt, and Roy Rosenzweig for the experience of working with them on "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," referenced in the article in this issue, and for their comments on an earlier version of the article, originally a paper delivered at the 2000 meeting of the American Historical Association.
Daniel M. Ringrose is currently assistant professor of history at Minot State University. He holds a Ph.D. in European history from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Carleton College. His research focus is modern France, with interests that include comparative European history, labor and gender history, imperialism, and the history of technology. He is currently completing a monograph that examines the role of French civil engineers, family networks, and the state in the modernization in provincial France.
Cathy Gorn is director of National History Day at the University of Maryland, College Park. David van Tassel, featured in her article in this issue, was her mentor and dissertation adviser for her doctorate at Case Western University, where she studied the Pace Organization, a school reform project in Cleveland during the 1960s. She is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Maryland and sits on the board of the White House Historical Commission.
Leon Fink is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directs the concentration in the history of work, race, and gender in the urban world. Vice president of the American Historical Association's Teaching Division, 1998-2001, he remains the AHA liaison to the National Council for Teacher Education (NCHE).
Roy Rosenzweig is professor of history and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978, and specializes in United States social and cultural history of the late nineteenth century and twentieth century.
David S. Trask teaches western and world civilization at Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, North Carolina where he also teaches classes online and is studying the impact of electronic media on the understanding and teaching of history.