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viiRebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the %u201cGilded Age,%u201d 1865%u20131905; and the essay %u201cWomen%u2019s and Gender History%u201d (American History Now). She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America%u2019s nineteenthcentury empire.About the AuthorsKarl RabeDavid TitensorPeter GoldbergEric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston%u2019s Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673%u20131800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America. With co-author Rebecca Horn, he is currently completing a history of the Americas from 1492 to 1850.Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s; he is also coeditor of Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern American History. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.James A. Henretta is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include %u201cSalutary Neglect%u201d: Colonial Administration Under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600%u20131820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, %u201cMagistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,%u201d in The Cambridge History of American Law.%u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Do not distribute.