PAULA BAKER is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. She has written The Moral Frameworks of Public Life (Oxford, 1991) and “The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780–1920” (American Historical Review, 1984). The tangled (and sometimes absurd) histories of corruption, party politics, the press, and reform are the subjects of Curbing Campaign Cash: Henry Ford, Truman Newberry, and the Politics of Progressive Reform (2012). Baker has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and was the recipient of an American Association of University Women fellowship. baker.973@osu.edu
JONATHAN BARTH is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University. His first book, The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America, was published with Cornell University Press in 2021. He has also been published in numerous journals, including The William and Mary Quarterly, The New England Quarterly, and the South Dakota Law Review. He received his Ph.D. in History from George Mason University in 2014. Jonathan.Barth@asu.edu
ADRIAN BRETTLE, as well as teaching U.S. and European political history at Arizona State. His book, Colossal Ambitions, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2020 and shortlisted for the Lincoln Prize that year. Brettle has written numerous articles on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era and British Foreign Policy. abrettle@asu.edu
TERRI DIANE HALPERIN is the author of Testing the Constitution: The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. She is currently working on a history of the US Senate from 1789 to 1833. She taught at the University of Richmond and is an independent scholar living in Richmond, VA. terridhalperin@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0980-5644
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY is a Justice on the Arizona Supreme Court and previously served as the Maricopa County Attorney. He earned his J.D. from ASU College of Law, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif and his B.S. from West Point, 1989. He is a Veteran of Operations Desert Shield/Storm. montgomerylawaz@gmail.com
GEOFFREY R. STONE is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School (1987–1994) and Provost of the University of Chicago (1994–2002) and is the author or co-author of many books on Constitutional Law. gstone@uchicago.edu
