Hal M. Friedman is an instructor of modern history at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan. He also teaches upper division and graduate courses for Central Michigan University's College of Extended Learning. Holding a Ph.D. in the history of international relations from Michigan State University, he has numerous articles and book reviews in print, as well as his first book, Creating an American Lake: United States Imperialism and Strategic Security in the Pacific Basin, 1945-1947 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001).
David A. Gerber is professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently finishing research for a book on the personal correspondence of nineteenth century British immigrants to the United States and Canada. Recent published work includes "Epistolary Ethics: Personal Correspondence and the Culture of Emigration in the Nineteenth Century," in the Journal of American Ethnic History, 19 (Summer 2000), and "Theories and Lives: Transnationalism and the Conceptualization of International Migration to the United States," IMIS-Beiträge, XV (December 2000).
Hannah Lieberman attends South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she wrote the winning article in the Senior Division of the 2001 National History Day competition that is featured in this issue, and completed an Advanced Placement American history class taught by Robert Rogness. This was her second year of participation in the National History Day program. She plans to attend college in the fall of 2002.
Robert Shaffer is assistant professor of history at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He is completing his Ph.D. at Rutgers University on Pearl S. Buck, and previously taught high school social studies in New York City. His articles include "A Rape in Beijing, December 1946: GIs, Nationalist Protests, and U.S. Foreign Policy," in Pacific Historical Review (February 2000), for which he won the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize of the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association.
Lindsay Snider attends Grand Rapids Baptist High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She previously attended Ada Christian School, where she wrote the winning article in the Junior Division of the 2001 National History Day competition that is featured in this issue. Her faculty advisors for the article were Vonda Brasser and Laura Kuperus. She enjoys reading, watercolor painting, cooking and spending time with her friends.
Paul B. Weinstein teaches history at The University of Akron Wayne College in Orrville, Ohio. His research interests are in how commercial film depicts history and in using popular film as a teaching tool. His articles on teaching and film have appeared or will soon be published in The Teaching Professor, The AURCO Journal and the Film & History 2001 CD ROM Annual.