William Abbott is an associate professor of history at Fairfield University. A former department chairman and past president of the university Phi Beta Kappa chapter, he is also the faculty moderator of the Fairfield chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, and was designated Fairfield University Teacher of the Year in 1989. His historical research specialty is early seventeenth-century England, and he has published in Albion and Private Libraries in Renaissance England.
James Axtell is Kenan Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary. After earning a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, he taught at Yale, Sarah Lawrence, and Northwestern before joining the history department at William and Mary in 1978. He is the author of eleven books, most recently The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration & Defense of Higher Education (1998) and Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America (2001).
Kathren Brown is a visiting professor of history at Bowling Green State University. She earned her Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University. Her areas of specialty include Russian and American economic history, 1880-1930.
MaryAnn Davies is a professor of education and chair of curricular studies at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. In addition to administration, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in elementary and middle level teacher education. As a social studies education specialist, she assist teachers in using instructional strategies that make content meaningful and remembered long-term. She regularly publishes and presents on integrating literature in social studies, brain-compatible teaching strategies, and alternative approaches to assessing student progress.
Kevin Kern is a visiting professor of Africana Studies at the University of Toledo. His Ph.D. is from Bowling Green State University. His area of interest is American anthropology and racial constructs in the early 20th century.
Daniel Kotzin teaches both United States and Jewish history at Beth Tfiloh Dahan High School in Baltimore. Previously, he taught history at the College of State Island and Bergen Community College. He received his Ph.D. in American history from New York University in 1998, preparing his dissertation as a biography of the American Jewish rabbi Judah Magnes. His scholarly interests are in American cultural, intellectual, and ethnic history.
William H. Mulligan, Jr. is associate professor of history and director of the Forrest C. Pogue Public History Institute at Murray State University. He teaches early American and social history and a variety of courses in public history. He is a graduate of Assumption College and has his masters and doctoral degrees from Clark University. His current research is on connections between copper mining areas in Ireland and Michigan's Copper Country in the nineteenth century.
Kathryn Nantz is an associate professor of economics at Fairfield University. Her research interests lie in the areas of labor economics and comparative economic systems. Her teaching interests currently involve the integration of technology into her courses. She has published articles in the Journal of Comparative Economics and College Teaching. This fall she and William Abbott (coauthor of the article in this issue) will teach an honors seminar based upon the concepts described in this article.
Russell Olwell is assistant professor of history at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He teaches classes on methods of teaching history and social studies, methods of historical research and writing, and survey classes in United States history.
Linda Pomerantz (Zhang) is professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and currently serves as interim associate dean of Extended Education at CSUDH. Dr. Pomerantz received her Ph.D from UCLA in modern Chinese history. She is the author of Wu Tingfang, 1842-1922: Reform and Modernization in Modern Chinese History (Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1992), and has written about history education in California.
Kathleen A. Tobin received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994. Her book on Religion and the Birth Control Debate in the U.S., 1907-1937 is being released by McFarland Publishing this fall, and she is currently researching the history of international population policy. She has taught numerous courses in U.S., Latin American and World History, currently with Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana.