RENEE C. ROMANO is the Robert S. Danforth Professor of History at Oberlin College in Ohio. She is the author or coeditor of many books, including Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders. CLAIRE BOND POTTER is a professor of history and the executive editor of Public Seminar at The New School in New York. She is the author or coeditor of several books, including War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture (Rutgers University Press). About the contributors: Joseph M. Adelman is an assistant professor of history at Framingham
State University in Massachusetts. A historian of media,
communication, and politics in the Atlantic world, he is currently
working on a book about the circulation of political news during
the American Revolution and the history of the U.S. Post Office. Catherine Allgor is the president of the Massachusetts Historical
Society in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of several
books about women and politics in the founding era, including
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American
Nation. Jim Cullen is a history teacher at the Ethical Culture Fieldston
School in New York City. He is the author of numerous books,
among them The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That
Shaped a Nation and Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical
Visions. Joanne B. Freeman is a professor of history and American Studies
at Yale University, specializing in the politics and political culture
of Revolutionary and early national America. An elected fellow
of the Society of American Historians and an advisor to the National
Park Service, she is the editor of The Essential Hamilton and Hamilton:
Writings; and the author of Affairs of Honor: National Politics in
the New Republic, which won the Best Book award from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is currently
completing a study of physical violence in the U.S. Congress. Leslie M. Harris is a professor of history at Northwestern University.
She is the author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans
in New York City, 1626-1863; and coeditor with Ira Berlin of
Slavery in New York, which accompanied the groundbreaking 2005-
2007 New-York Historical Society exhibition of the same name. Brian Eugenio Herrera is an assistant professor of theater in
the Lewis Center for the Arts at Pr