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Contributors Susan Branson is an associate professor of American studies at Syracuse University. She wrote These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Politics and Culture in Early National Philadelphia. Her recent work is a shift from political culture to criminal culture. A research project on the notorious Harry Flashman’s involvement in a plot to kidnap the governor of Pennsylvania led her to investigate the activities (and crimes) of Ann Baker Carson. These exploits are detailed in Branson’s latest book, Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Nineteenth Century. Konstantin Dierks, an assistant professor in the History Department at Indiana University, Bloomington, is currently completing a book manuscript entitled In My Power: Letter Writing in Early America. He recently published“Letter Writing, Stationery Supplies, and Consumer Modernity in the EighteenthCentury Atlantic World,” which was included in a special issue of Early American Literature devoted to “economics and early American studies” (November 2006). Jennifer L. Goloboy received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her dissertation focused on merchants and middle-class culture in Charleston, South Carolina, during the Revolutionary era. She has published an essay on the early American middle class in the Journal of the Early Republic. Currently, she is revising her dissertation and writing and editing a book on the social history of the Industrial Revolution for ABC-Clio. Gabriele Gottlieb, an assistant professor of history at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, is currently revising her dissertation into a book manuscript .“Theater of Death: Capital Punishment in Early America, 1750–1800” is a comparative study of the application of the death penalty in Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Thomas J. Humphrey is an associate professor of history at Cleveland State University. The author of several articles and essays on land riots in the Revolutionary period, he has also written Land and Liberty: Hudson Valley Riots in the Age of Revolution. He is the co-editor, with John Smolenski, of New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Early Americas. In addition to his continuing research on Edward J. Flashman’s fervent support of Alexander Hamilton’s fiscal policies, he is currently pursuing a booklength study of tenants in North America in the Revolutionary era. Daniel R. Mandell is an associate professor of history at Truman State University , Missouri, where he has taught early American and Native American history since 1999. He is the author of Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880 (forthcoming); Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (1996); the New England South and New England North volumes in the series Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws (2003); and various articles on Indians and race in early America. Simon Middleton is a lecturer in early American history at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City and articles in New York History and The William and Mary Quarterly on the history of New York City. Currently, he is looking into the life of John Underhill, an English Puritan whose travels took him to the Dutch Republic, New England, and New Netherland in the first half of the seventeenth century. Simon P. Newman has degrees in American studies and history from the University of Nottingham, the University of Wisconsin, and Princeton University . He is the Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American Studies at the University of Glasgow and author of Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic (1997) and Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (2003). Lawrence A. Peskin, an associate professor of history at Morgan State University in Baltimore, has written Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry (2003) and several articles. He is currently completing a manuscript on the impact of Barbary captivity on the early national United States. Ty M. Reese is an associate professor of history at the University of North Dakota. His work on the Fetu, Fante, and Cape Coast seeks to redefine the 316 Contributors [3.236.111.234] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 12:18 GMT) place of West Africa in the Atlantic World and to increase our understanding of the consequences of the slave trade in West Africa through a focused, rather than regional, study. Daniel K. Richter is the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania . He is the author...