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janine black arkles is an assistant professor of management at Kean University in Union, NJ. She researches entrepreneurs from the 1700s in the Philadelphia, PA, area. Her interest in historical figures grew from her experiences living in a 1700s house in the historical district of Philadelphia. Her current focus is on black entrepreneurs of the 1700s–1800s as well as some digressions with technology advancements, such as the astronomical measurements made for the first time in the colonies by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon around 1763.

elizabeth hornor is an assistant professor of history at MidAmerica Nazarene University. Her research interests include the intersections of war and society in eighteenth-century North America.

ellen c. leichtman is associate professor of criminal justice at Eastern Kentucky University. She received her PhD from Brown University and is ABD at Temple University. She is particularly interested in the scandals of the police and courts of Philadelphia in the 1920s and 1930s, and in the interaction of machine politicians and reformers in the first half of the twentieth century. Her publications include “Complex Harmony: The Military and Professional Models of Policing,” and “Smedley D. Butler and the Militarisation of the Philadelphia Police, 1924–1925.” [End Page 226]

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