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david w. noble is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of several books, including Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism (Minnesota, 2002) and The End of American History: Democracy, Capitalism, and the Metaphor of Two Worlds in Anglo-American Historical Writing, 1880–1980 (Minnesota, 1985). david r. roediger isprofessorofhistoryattheUniversityofIllinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is the author of How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon; Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past; and Toward the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History. ...

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