Contributors
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Martin J. Desht (see introduction to his photographic essay).
Carol E. Brier holds an honor's degree in history from Queens College, City University of New York, and is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society. A former Trustee of the Friends of John Jay Homestead, she is a long-time volunteer at the historic site. She has researched the John Jay Collection at the Butler Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University for the John Jay Homestead. Articles that she has written about John Jay and the China Trade have been published in the 2001 catalogue of the Bedford Spring Antiques Show and the John Jay Homestead History Notes. Her article, "John Jay and George Washington's Valedictory," was published in 2010 by the Supreme Court Historical Society in two issues of the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society Quarterly. Another article she has written, "Joseph Cusno, the Sicilian Immigrant and the Jays of Bedford," was published by the Westchester County Historical Society in the Spring 2011 issue of the Westchester Historian; the last two articles published added new information to the documented history of the John Jay Homestead. She is currently writing the first of several books book about John Jay and other articles about his descendants.
Erica Rhodes Hayden is currently finishing her dissertation at Vanderbilt University on female criminality and punishment in antebellum Pennsylvania. She earned her MA in history from Vanderbilt in 2009, and graduated with a BA in history from Juniata College in 2007. She has contributed a series of encyclopedia articles to The Social History of Crime and Punishment in American History published by SAGE in 2012. Her research interests include nineteenth-century social history, antebellum reform movements, and the history of crime and punishment.
Christopher Shepard received his MA in history from the University of Charleston/Citadel Joint Program. He is the author of The Civil War Income Tax and the Republican Party, 1861-1872, and an adjunct instructor of history at Trident Technical College. He currently resides in Mount Pleasant, SC, with his wife and son. [End Page 135]
Andrew T. Tremel, a native of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, graduated from Thiel College with a BA in history in 2006 and from Kent State University in 2008 with an MA in history. He worked for the National Park Service in Northern Virginia and is now employed at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. [End Page 136]
