Ellen L. Berg recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently revising her dissertation "Citizens in the Republic of Childhood: Immigrants and the American Kindergarten, 1880-1920" for publication.

Jennifer D. Keene is an associate professor and chair at Chapman University in Orange, California. She is the author of Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America (2001) and The United States and the First World War (2000).

Eric Rauchway, author of Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America (2003, available in paperback from FSG/Hill and Wang) and The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900-1920 (2001, available in paperback from Columbia University Press), is associate professor of history at University of California, Davis.

Marlis Schweitzer recently received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto's Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama. Her dissertation, "Becoming Fashionable: Actresses, Fashion, and the Development of American Consumer Culture," examines the convergence of theater and the fashion industry in New York between 1893 and 1919. An adjunct faculty member at the University of Toronto at Mississauga during 2004-05, she will begin a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship next fall at the University of Pennsylvania, where her new research will focus on "fashion nationalism" in American culture.

Erica B. Simmons is a Hannah Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Medicine at York University in Canada. Her book, Hadassah Women and the Making of the Jewish State, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield this year.

Greg Woirol is Douglas W. Ferguson Professor of Business and Economics at Whittier College. Professor Woirol received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in U.S. economic history, with a focus on early-twentieth-century labor history and the history of economic thought.