Louise Mayo is the Chairperson of the Department of History/Political Science at County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ, where she has been a professor for the past twenty-three years. She is the author of The Ambivalent Image (1988) and numerous articles and papers in the fields of women and minority history. She has an M.A. from Cornell University in Modern European and Russian History and a Ph.D. from City University of New York in American history, specializing in immigration and minority history, She teaches courses in Twentieth Century America, History of American Women, History of Minorities, History of American Cities and Suburbs, and Civil War and Reconstruction.

Doug Cantrell is an Associate Professor of History at Elizabethtown Community College in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where he has taught for 13 years. He holds a B.A. from Berea College in History and Political Science, an M.A. from the University of Kentucky, and has completed 30 hours toward the Ph.D. He is the author of numerous journal and encyclopedia articles in the field of immigration and ethnic history. Professor Cantrell also teaches Kentucky and American History courses on the web and is the social science discipline leader for the Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in the South and Southwest. He is a former editor and past president of the Kentucky Association Teachers of History.

Barbara D. Ripel is Professor of History at Suffolk County Community College, Riverland, New York. Her B.A. and Ph.D. are from SUNY Stony Brook, and her M.A. is from Rutgers University in New Jersey. The West Georgia Quarterly published her article on Harbottle Dorr, and The William and Mary Quarterly published her research on early pro-slavery petitions from the 1780s. Beside her background in American History, Professor Ripel has taught Western Civilization survey courses, Political Science, Anthropology and Sociology. She recently directed the Honors Program on the Suffolk Campus. In 1998, she received the New York State Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Ripel serves as the campus advisor to Phi Theta Kappa, the International Honor Society for Two Year Colleges.

Randolph Hollingsworth received her B.A. from Vassar College and her M.A. in Teaching from Colgate University. She began teaching in a central New York public junior high school, went to Zimbabwe to teach secondary school to the newly independent Africans and then returned to Kentucky, her birthplace. Two years after starting her Ph.D. in history at the University of Kentucky, she quit to teach full-time at Lexington Community College. Ten years later, she returned to her graduate studies and graduated in 1999 with a specialty in the American South focusing on nineteenth century women. She was selected for the Commonwealth Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship during which she continued her research. Currently she is on leave from Lexington Community College serving as an administrator in the Kentucky Virtual University.

Theresia Stewart is an Associate Professor of political science at Elizabethtown Community College. Theresia is a leader in the field of multicultural education, serving as chairperson of the multicultural committee at her institution since 1994 and assisting in the development of curriculum for teaching international relations, funded through a grant from the U.S. Institute of Peace. She shares her expertise by participating in workshops among individuals in the business and political community.

David Bowden is an Associate Professor of History at Elizabethtown Community College in Kentucky, where he teaches European, United States, and World War II history. He earned a B.B.A. degree in Marketing and an M.A. degree in History from the University of Kentucky. He has taught full-time for Elizabethtown Community College for seven years and previously served as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Louisville and Elizabethtown Community College. David Bowden has published an article on Native American history in the Chronicles of Oklahoma and has presented a research paper at the Indiana State University's Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture. He served as Secretary and then as Community College Representative for the Executive Committee of the Kentucky Association of Teachers of History for six years.