Editorial Board

Jo Ann E. Argersinger is professor of history at Southern Illinois University. A recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Residential Fellowship, she is the author of Toward a New Deal in Baltimore (1988); Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Clothing Industry, 1899-1939 (1999); and The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents (2009). She is also a co-author of The American Journey (5th edition, 2009) and Twentieth-Century America: A Social and Political History (2005). Her current project is a book entitled “Contested Visions of American Democracy: Citizenship, Public Housing, and the International Arena.”

Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg. His most recent publications include The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration (2005); Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America (2011); Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Adaptation and Transfer (ed. 2011); Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective (ed. 2011). In 2006, he received the David Thelen Award of the Organization of American Historians for his essay “Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism: The NAACP during the Early Cold War,” which was subsequently published in the Journal of American History. Before he was appointed professor of American history at Heidelberg, he taught at the Free University of Berlin and was a research fellow (1992-1997) at the German Historical Institute, Washington, among other positions.

Jørn Brøndal is associate professor of American history at the University of Southern Denmark. He took his PhD degree at the University of Copenhagen in 1999 following a one-year stay at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Fulbright scholar. His book, Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1914 (2004), earned him a Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award of Merit. Brøndal works within the fields of political, ethnic, and racial history, as well as late-nineteenth-century travel literature. He is president of the Danish Association for American Studies.

Charles W. Calhoun is Thomas Harriot College Distinguished Professor of History at East Carolina University. He is a founder and past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His research focuses on politics during the late nineteenth century. His books include From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age (2010), Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888 (2008), Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900 (2006), Benjamin Harrison (2005), and Gilded Age Cato: The Life of Walter Q. Gresham (1988). In 2007, the second edition of his anthology, The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America, appeared. He is currently at work on a study of the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. In 2009, he received SHGAPE's Roger D. Bridges Distinguished Service Award.

James Connolly is professor of history and director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University. His research and writing has focused on U.S. urban and ethnic politics and on small cities. His publications include An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America (2010), After the Factory: Reinventing America’s Industrial Small Cities (2010), The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925 (1998), and “Decentering Urban History: Peripheral Cities in the Modern World,” a special issue of the Journal of Urban History (November 2008). His current project is “What Middletown Read,” an investigation of reading behavior in Muncie, Indiana during the 1890s.

Lynn Dumenil is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. She has also taught at Berkeley, Whitman College, and Claremont McKenna College. She specializes in U.S. cultural and social history since the Civil War. Dumenil is the author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995) and Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930 (1984) and is co-author of Through Women’s Eyes: An American History; America: A Concise History; and America’s History. She is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History, to be published in 2012, and is currently working on Women, World War I, and the Emergence of Modern American Culture.

Kristin Hoganson, professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the author of Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998) and Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 (2007). Her current research examines the politics of place and the global dimensions of the local in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A past recipient of the Bernath Lecture Prize in U.S. foreign relations history, she was awarded a Fulbright to teach at the University of Munich during the spring semester of 2011.

Joseph Horowitz, music historian and producer, has written eight books, including Wagner Nights: An American History (1994), a history of American Wagnerism in the Gilded Age which won the Society of American Music’s Lowens Award as best book of the year. Classical Music in America: A History (2005), a portion of which appeared in the July 2005 issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, was named a best book of the year by The Economist. His Understanding Toscanini (1987) was a National Book Critics Circle best book; his Artists in Exile (2008) was a best book of the year in The Economist. His book-in-progress is “Moral Fire: Portraits from America’s Fin-de-Siecle.” In addition to this journal, his articles have appeared in the New York Review of Books, 19th Century Music, Musical Quarterly, American Music, The American Scholar, the Magazine of History, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. A former New York Times music critic, he is author of “classical music” (among other articles) for both the Oxford Companion to American History and the Encyclopedia of New York State. He frequently writes concert and book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement (UK). In addition to his varied writing, Horowitz produces thematic concert festivals and has served as director of an NEH National Education Project on “Dvorak and America,” resulting in a young readers book and an interactive DVD. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEH fellowships, a Columbia University arts journalism fellowship, and two ASCAP/Deems Taylor awards. He has taught at the New England Conservatory, the Eastman School, and Colorado College, among other institutions. His website is www.josephhorowitz.com, and he maintains a blog at http://www.artsjournal.com/uq/

Kathryn Allamong Jacob is the curator of manuscripts at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Prior to joining the staff of the Schlesinger Library, Jacob was assistant historian of the U.S. Senate, assistant program director at the National Historical Publications and Record Commission, and deputy director of the American Jewish Historical Society. She earned her PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University. Her books include Capital Elites: High Society in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War (1994) and Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. (1998), and she was editor-in-chief of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989 (1989) and Guide to Research Collections of Former United States Senators (1983). Her most recent book is King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age (2010). Jacob has also written on the Lizzie Borden ax murders, the first sex survey of American women, and sculptor Vinnie Ream Hoxie.

Richard R. John is a professor in the PhD program in communications at the Columbia School of Journalism, where he teaches courses on business, technology, communications, and political development. His publications include His publications include Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010), which received the Ralph Gomory Prize, and Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995), which received the Allan Nevins Prize. He has been a fellow at the Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson Center and a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. John is co-editor of two book series: “American Business, Politics, and Society” with the University of Pennsylvania Press; and “How Things Worked: Institutional Dimensions of the American Past” with John Hopkins University Press. He serves on the editorial boards of the Business History Review, Enterprise and Society, and the Journal of Policy History and is a founder of the Newberry Library’s Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture.

Edward P. Kohn is assistant professor of history and chair of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He received his PhD from McGill University in Montreal in 2000, as well as his BA from Harvard University in 1990 and an MA in 1991 from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, where he attended on a Fulbright scholarship. A political and diplomatic historian, he has published a number of recent articles on Theodore Roosevelt's early career in New York City, including one in this journal in 2006. Professor Kohn's most recent book is Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt (2010).

Jennifer L. Koslow is an assistant professor of history at Florida State University, where she directs the History Department’s public history program. She is the author of Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform (2009). Her work has been supported by the Rockefeller Archive Center, the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, the Huntington Library, the Historical Society of Southern California, and the American Historical Association. Her current project is a social history of exhibits and public health.

Kate Masur is assistant professor of history and African American studies at Northwestern University. She is particularly interested in the intersection of African American history and the history of citizenship, rights, and the state. After receiving her PhD in American Culture at the University of Michigan, she was an assistant editor at the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland. Her book on Washington, D.C. during Reconstruction, An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. (2010), received honorable mention for the Lincoln Prize. Her research has been supported by grants from the Library of Congress's Kluge Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the ACLS. Her article on the cultural significance of the term “contraband” during the Civil War won the 2007 Binkley-Stephenson Award for best scholarly article in the Journal of American History.

Richard Schneirov is professor of history at Indiana State University, where he has taught since 1989. His teaching and research interests include labor and working-class history, American politics, and the 1960s counterculture and protest movements. His book, Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97 (1998) was awarded the Urban History Association’s prize for best book in North American Urban History Published. In 2003 he guest-edited two special issues of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era on American socialism, and in July 2006 his article, “Thoughts on Periodizing the Gilded Age: Capital Accumulation, Society, and Politics, 1873-1898,” was a subject of a JGAPE forum. His next book, co-authored with John B. Jentz, is "The Wage-Labor Question in the Age of Capital: Chicago during the Civil War and Reconstruction." Since 2006, Professor Schneirov has been president of the Indiana Conference of the American Association of University Professors.

Elizabeth Hayes Turner is professor of history at the University of North Texas. Her books include Women and Gender in the New South, 1865-1945 (2009) and the prize-winning Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 (1997). She is co-author of Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst (2000), as well as co-editor of Hidden Histories of Women in the New South (1994), Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women’s History (1998), Major Problems in the History of the American South (1999), Clio’s Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians (2004), and Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas (2007). A former staff member of the Journal of Southern History, she is currently helping to edit Texas Women/American Women: Their Lives and Times, scheduled to appear in 2012. She has been a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Genoa, Italy, as well as a fellow at the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. In 2011 the Texas State Historical Association elected her a fellow. Her teaching specialties are history of the New South, women and gender in the New South, and southern autobiography. Her current research project is a history of Juneteenth.

Robert Wooster is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He has written eight books, most notably The Military and U. S. Indian Policy, 1865-1903 (Yale, 1988), Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army (Nebraska, 1993), and Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West (Texas A&M, 2006). His most recent book, The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783-1900 (New Mexico, 2009), won the Western History Association's Robert M. Utley Award. He is currently completing a book assessing the army's role in national development, tentatively titled "From Confederation to Empire: The American Army and the Shaping of Nineteenth Century America."