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Carol Gayle is associate professor of history at Lake Forest College. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College and did her graduate work in history at Columbia University where she earned the certificate in Russian and Soviet studies. Although primarily a specialist in Russian and Soviet intellectual and social history, she has also published in American history. In particular, she coauthored Cast-Iron Architecture in America: The Significance of James Bogardus (W.W. Norton 1998), selected as a New York Times notable book that same year. She has also published several articles in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Russian History.

Jim Higgins earned his PhD at Lehigh University in 2009 where he concentrated on urban public health and medicine, especially the 1918–1922 influenza pandemic. He is an adjunct professor at Lehigh University and Cedar Crest College.

Turk McCleskey is a professor of history at Virginia Military Institute. His forthcoming book, The Road to Black Ned’s Forge: Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial Frontier, examines the life and times of a Pennsylvania slave who became Virginia’s first free black landowner west of the Blue Ridge.

William Moskoff is Hollender Professor Emeritus of Economics at Lake Forest College. He is a Phil Beta Kappa graduate of Hunter College in New York City and holds a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MS in biology from the University of Illinois-Chicago. He also holds the certificate in Russian area studies from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author and editor of nine books in economics and the author of more than 100 scholarly articles in the fields of economics, ornithology, and philately. He lived in Romania on a Fulbright research grant and has traveled widely in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

James C. Squire is a professor of electrical engineering at the Virginia Military Institute. He received a BS in electrical engineering from the US Military Academy and his MS and PhD in electrical engineering/bioengineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded a Bronze Star during Operation Desert Storm and was selected [End Page 275] as Virginia’s Rising Star professor in 2004. He codirects three technology startups and maintains an active consulting practice in Massachusetts and Virginia.

Arthur Scherr has taught history at New York City University. He is the author of Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy: Myths and Realities (2011) and “Arms and Men: The Diplomacy of U.S. Weapons Traffic with Saint-Domingue under Adams and Jefferson,” International History Review 35, no. 3 (2103): 600–648. [End Page 276]

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