Alonzo L. Hamby is Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University. His most recent books are Liberalism and Its Challengers: F.D.R. To Bush (1992) and Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995).

Cynthia Harrison is associate professor of history and women's studies at George Washington University. She is the author of On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues, 1945–1968 (1988).

Steven F. Lawson is professor of American history at Rutgers University. He is the author of In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982 (1985), Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941 (1997), and Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1968 (1998), among other books.

Richard Polenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of American History at Cor/ nell University, where he has taught since 1966. In 1988–89 he served as Ful/ bright Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the au/ thor of The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process (1997) and editor of In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Se/ curity Clearance Hearing (2002).

Harvard Sitkoff is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of A New Deal for Blacks (1978) and The Struggle for Black Equality (1993) and the editor of Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated (1985), among other books.

Melvin I. Urofsky is professor of history and public policy and director of the doctoral program in public policy at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author or editor of more than forty books, of which the most recent is Religious Liberty (2002).

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