Glenn C. Altschuler is dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He teaches courses in American studies and American popular culture. The most recent of his many works is Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century (2000), coauthored with Stuart M. Blumin. Altschuler received his Ph.D. in American history from Cornell in 1976.
Patricia A. Alvarez is a lecturer in the history department at the University of Hawaii. She regularly teaches introductory courses in world civilizations and also offers courses in American history.
David Coles is assistant professor of history at Longwood College where he teaches archival administration as well as U.S. Southern, military, and Civil War history. Before coming to Longwood, he worked as the archives supervisor at the Florida State Archives. Coles earned his Ph.D. at Florida State University.
Thomas Dublin is professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University. His Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (1979) won the Bancroft Prize and the Merle Curti Award. His most recent book is When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times (1998), an oral history of men and women coping with industrial decline in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania, and he is currently completing a broader collaborative study of anthracite coal mining in the twentieth century.
Dwight Gibb has retired after teaching for thirty years at Lakeside School in Seattle, with a special interest in designing curricula he describes as enabling teachers "to do all the things they say they ought to do, but do not have time for." He has been active with Educators For Social Responsibility and the World History Association. He received his M.A. from Case Western Reserve University.
Casey Harison is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville where he teaches courses in modern European history and world history. He has published several articles on nineteenth-century French society, which is his main area of research. Harison earned his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in 1993.
Eric Rauchway is associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis. His book, The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900-1920, is available in paperback from Columbia University Press. Rauchway earned his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1996 and has taught at Oxford University and the University of Nevada, Reno.
Roy Rosenzweig is professor of history and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He specializes in United States social and cultural history of the late nineteenth century and twentieth century. Rozenzweig received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978.
Kelly Schrum is associate editor of History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and is creating online "Learner Guides" in cooperation with the Visible Knowledge Project. She is revising her dissertation, Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Development of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920-1950, for publication. Her research interests include gender, consumer culture, youth, and new media. Schrum received her Ph.D. in American history from Johns Hopkins University in 2000.
Kathryn Kish Sklar is distinguished professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She previously taught at the Residential College of the University of Michigan and at UCLA. She studies the history of women's participation in social movements, as well as voluntary organizations and American public culture, with comparative reference to women's political activism in Germany and Britain. Sklar received her B.A. from Radcliffe College/Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Deborah Welch is associate professor of history at Longwood College where she serves as director of the public history program, teaching classes in historic preservation, public history, American Indian history, and social studies teaching methods. She has also taught at the State University of New York, College at Fredonia and was formerly a director of the History Teaching Alliance, a joint endeavor of the American Historical Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Organization of American Historians to bring college and secondary school teachers together in ongoing collaborative discussions on the teaching of history. Welch holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming.
Andrea L. Winkler is assistant professor of history at Whitman College. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin.