Contributors
- Contributors
Rebecca Edwards is an Associate Professor of History at Vassar College, where she specializes in nineteenth-century American history. She is the author of Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (Oxford, 1997) and New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905 (Oxford University Press, 2005).
David J. Erickson received his history Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005. He also has an M.A. in Public Policy from Berkeley and five years of experience in affordable housing finance working for nonprofits, government, and the private sector. He currently works at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as a researcher on community development issues.
Robert Harrison teaches history and American Studies at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. His latest book is Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and he is currently working on the history of emancipation and Reconstruction in Washington, D.C.
Patrick McGuinn is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drew University. His research interests are education and social welfare policy, American Political Development, and the policymaking process. His work on education policy has been published in Publius, The Public Interest, Teachers College Record, and Educational Policy. His book, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal School Policy, 1965–2 005, is forthcoming from the University Press of Kansas 2006. [End Page 274]
