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Charles D. Cashdollar is University Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He was president of the Pennsylvania Historical Association in 2007–8. Among his publications is A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000). Marie Conn is Professor of Religious Studies at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia . Her most recent books are C. S. Lewis and Human Suffering: Light Among the Shadows (Paulist Press, 2009), and (co-editor with Therese McGuire) Imaging the Other: Essays on Diversity (University Press of America, 2010). David R. Contosta is Professor of History at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia . He is the author or editor of some twenty books, including, most recently, Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin (Prometheus Books, 2008) and Metropolitan Paradise: The Struggle for Nature in the City (St. Joseph’s University Press, 2010). William W. Cutler III is Professor Emeritus of History at Temple University. He is the author of Parents and Schools: The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education (University of Chicago Press, 2000) and the co-editor of The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800–1975 (Greenwood Press, 1980). He is a member of the Historical Commission of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Deborah Mathias Gough is the Director of Advising and New Student Initiatives at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She is the author of Christ Church, Philadelphia, The Nation’s Church in a Changing City (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). Ann Norton Greene is an Assistant Professor and administrator in the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Harvard University Press, 2008), and has also written on various aspects of Philadelphia history. Sheldon Hackney is Professor Emeritus of U.S. History at the University of Pennsylvania , with a specialty in the history of the American South since the Civil War. His Populism to Progressivism in Alabama won the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award, and he is currently working on a biography of C. Vann Woodward, the noted historian of the American South. Professor Hackney is the Contributors 366   contributors former president of Tulane University (1975–81) and the University of Pennsylvania (1981–93), and the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1993–97). Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner is Professor Emerita of History at Haverford College . Her recent publications include Quaker Aesthetics, with Anne Verplanck (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), and Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the American Colonization Movement, with Margaret Hope Bacon (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005). She is currently at work on a history of a Bryn Mawr Quaker family; a study of a mid-twentieth-century Philadelphia intentional community ; and, with Dee Andrews, a reevaluation of eighteenth-century British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson. William Pencak is Professor Emeritus of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University and is currently lecturing at Susquehanna University. He is the current editor of Pennsylvania History and is completing a biography of Bishop William White. He has written a more extensive article on Anglican loyalist clergy during the American Revolution that appeared in Pennsylvania’s Revolution, published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2010. Thomas F. Rzeznik is Assistant Professor of History at Seton Hall University. He has published articles in American religious history and has written a book, forthcoming from Penn State Press, that explores the intersection of religion and wealth in industrial-era Philadelphia. ...

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