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Jonathan M. Chu is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Educated at the Punahou School in Hawaii, he attended the Universities of Pennsylvania and Hawaii. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and a Master's in Studies of Law from the Yale Law School. The author of Neighbors, Friends, and Madmen, a study of religious dissent in 17th-century Massachusetts, Professor Chu has written articles on topics ranging from the legal and economic impact of the American Revolution to the Chinese Exclusion Act. During the spring of 2001, he served as a Fulbright Professor at Northeast Normal University in Changchun, People's Republic of China. 
Evelynn M. Hammonds is an associate professor of the history of science in the Science, Technology, and Society program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor Hammonds holds undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering, a Master's of Science in physics from MIT, and a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University. During the academic year 1994-'95 she was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and a member of the School of Social Science at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Professor Hammonds was co-organizer of the 1994 Black Women in the Academy Conference held at MIT. Her research is in the history of science, medicine, and public health in the United States, and race and gender in science studies. She is the founding director of the MIT Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Pauline Maier is the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of American History at MIT. Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, she went to Radcliffe College, was a Fulbright scholar in London, then got a Ph.D. in history at Harvard. She taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the University of Wisconsin Madison before going to MIT. Professor Maier writes mainly on the American Revolution and its heritage. Her most recent book, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, was on the New York Times Book Review editors' choice list of the 11 best fiction and nonfiction books of 1997. Her reviews of books on American history have appeared in the New York Times Book Review over the past few decades. She appeared in the PBS six-part series Liberty! The American Revolution, and also on the History Channel's Founding Fathers series. As of the spring of 2001, she is working on chapters for a new American history textbook, and is writing a book on the ratification of the federal constitution.
Louis P. Masur is a professor of history at the City College of New York. A specialist in 19th-century American history, he is the author of 1831: Year of Eclipse (2001) and Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 (1989). He has also edited The Challenge of American History (1999) and The Real War Will Never Get in the Books: Selections from Writers During the Civil War (1993).
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