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About the Authors

Wayne Bodle teaches in the Department of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War (Pennsylvania State Press, 2002), and has just completed a manuscript entitled The Fabricated Region: Making the Middle Colonies of British North America for the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Louise A. Breen is Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University. She is the author of Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630–1692 and is currently writing a book on the Atlantic world experiences of the English Puritan clergyman John Oxenbridge in the context of the English Civil War, Restoration, and Second Anglo-Dutch War.

Richard P. Gildrie is Emeritus Professor of History at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, and author of Salem Massachusetts, 1626–1683: A Covenant Community (University Press of Virginia, 1975) and The Profane, the Civil, and the Godly: The Reformation of Manners in Orthodox New England, 1679–1749 (Pennsylvania State Press, 1994).

Warren R. Hofstra is Stewart Bell Professor of History at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. In addition to teaching in the fields of American social and cultural history and directing the Community History Project of Shenandoah University, he has written and edited books on various aspects of American regional history including The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004); A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia (Rowman & Littlefield, 1986, 1999); George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry (Madison House, 1998); After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800–1900 (University of Tennessee Press, 2000); Virginia Reconsidered: New Histories of the Old Dominion (University of Virginia Press, 2003); Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years’ War in North America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); and Shenandoah Landscapes and the Great Valley Road of Virginia (University of Virginia Press, 2010).

Ned C. Landsman is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in British America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and other works on early American history and is currently working on a project on the significance of the union of England and Scotland (1707) and the creation of Great Britain for the North American Colonies.

Heather McCrea is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Kansas State University. Her book, Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-building in Yucatán, Mexico 1847–1929 (University of New Mexico Press, 2010) examines the critical role played by disease, epidemics, and public health initiatives in state formation.

Noeleen McIlvenna was born in Northern Ireland and grew up during the Troubles, completing her BA in History at the University of Ulster in Coleraine. She graduated with a Ph.D. from Duke University in 2004 and her book, A Very Mutinous People, was published in 2009. An Associate Professor at Wright State University in Ohio, she is currently working on the colonial history of Georgia.

Kenneth P. Minkema is Executive Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and of the Jonathan Edwards Center & Online Archive at Yale University, with a Research Faculty appointment at Yale Divinity School. He has published numerous articles on Jonathan Edwards and various topics in early American religious history, edited volume 14 in the Edwards Works, Sermons and Discourses: 1723–1729, and co-edited A Jonathan Edwards Reader, The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentennial of His Birth, and Jonathan Edwards's “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”: A Casebook. He also co-edited The Sermon Notebook of Samuel Parris, 1689–1694, dealing with the Salem Witchcraft crisis, and The Colonial Church Records of Reading and Rumney Marsh, Massachusetts, and has begun editing the church records of Rowley, Massachusetts, 1652–1784. Finally, he is currently part of a team that is preparing Cotton Mather's “Biblia Americana” for publication.

Robert M. Morrissey is Assistant Professor of History at Lake Forest College, where he teaches courses on American colonial and frontier history. He is currently completing his first book on the eighteenth-century Illinois Country.

Michael L. Oberg is Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo. He is the author of Native America: A History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), and three other books. He lives in Rochester, New York.

James Piecuch, a former firefighter and freelance writer, is an Assistant Professor of History at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. He is the author of several articles and anthology chapters on colonial and Revolutionary history, as well as four books: The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History (History Press, 2006), Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South (University of South Carolina Press, 2008), “Cool Deliberate Courage:” John Eager Howard in the American Revolution (Nautical and Aviation Pub Co of America, 2009), and “The Blood Be Upon Your Head”: Tarleton and the Myth of Buford's Massacre (Southern Campaigns of the Am Rev Press, 2010). He has also served as an assistant editor and contributor to several reference publications for ABC-CLIO, including The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775 (2008).

Ty M. Reese is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Dakota. His current research examines the consequences of Atlantic trade on the African peoples of Cape Coast, the European and African communities within Cape Coast Castle, and the interactions that occurred between these groups.

James C. Robertson is a Senior Lecturer in History in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies, Mona, in Kingston, Jamaica. He is also Vice President of the Jamaican Historical Society. His publications include “Gone is the Ancient Glory”: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534–2000 (Ian Randle, 2005). He is currently working on the first English century in Jamaica, 1655–c.1770.

L.H. Roper teaches history at the State University of New York–New Paltz. He is the author of The English Empire in America, 1602–1658: Beyond Jamestown (Pickering & Chatto, 2009), and Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, Plots, 1662–1729 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). He also co-edited, with Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500–1750 (Brill Academic Publishers, 2007), and has published articles and essays on seventeenth-century English America. He currently serves as co-general editor of The Journal of Early American History published by Brill.

Walter Sargent is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maine Farmington. His research specialization is the American Revolution. His publications include War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts (Northern Illinois University Press, 2007). He has also contributed numerous articles on the character and experience of the American Revolution to reference publications including Boatner's Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, Revised Edition (Thomson Gale, 2006), Encyclopedia of War and American Society (Sage Publications, 2005), and Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (Macmillan, 2004). Currently he is preparing a manuscript that focuses on soldiers’ lives during the Revolutionary Era.

David J. Silverman teaches history at George Washington University. He is the author of Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America (Cornell University Press, 2010), and Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600–1871 (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Linda L. Sturtz is the George Russell Corlis Professor of History at Beloit College in Wisconsin. She is currently working on a history of gender and whiteness in early modern Jamaica and recently published an article “Mary Rose: ‘White’ African Jamaican Woman?: Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica” in Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland, edited by Judith A. Byfield, LaRay Denzer, and Anthea Morrison (Indiana University Press, 2010). She also wrote Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia (Routledge, 2002).

Timothy Walker is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. From 1994 to 2003, he was a visiting professor at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal. He is the recipient of a Fulbright dissertation fellowship to Portugal (1996–1997), a doctoral research fellowship from the Portuguese Camões Institute (1995–1996), and an NEH-funded American Institute for Indian Studies Grant for postdoctoral work in India (2000–2002). His current research focuses on the adoption of colonial indigenous medicines by European science; slave trading in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; and commercial and cultural links between the Portuguese overseas colonies in Asia, Africa, and Brazil.