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.

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. One of her works during this period included an introductory essay for the reprint of Lucy Stone: Pioneer Woman Suffragist by the University Press of Virginia. Currently she is on leave from Lexington Community College and serves as an administrator in the Kentucky Virtual University.

Thomas Matijasic earned a B.A. from Youngstown State University, a M.A. from Kent State and a Ph.D. in History from Miami University. He is currently a Professor of History at Prestonsburg Community College in eastern Kentucky. Dr. Matijasic has received three Great Teacher Awards and five NISOD Awards for teaching excellence. He has served as President of the Kentucky Association of Teachers of History and is a member of the Southern Historical Association. In 1994, Governor Brereton Jones appointed him to a seat on the Kentucky Heritage Council. He was re-appointed to the Council in 1998 by Governor Paul Patton when his first term expired. Dr. Matijasic has published more than twenty articles and thirty book reviews. He has also contributed entries to the Kentucky Encyclopedia and to reference works published by Salem Press.

Jacklyn Purple Rhodes has a B.A. and M.A.T. from Binghamton University. She teaches American History at the State University of New York College at Morrisville. In addition to teaching at SUNY-Morrisville for the past 15 years, she has also been involved with projects aimed at helping disadvantaged urban students. At the present time, she is the acting director of an inner city program aimed at educating at-risk high school students in Syracuse, New York.