William A. Link, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida, is the author of Links: My Family in American History.

David Brown, senior lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester, is the coauthor of Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights.

Brian Ward, professor of American Studies at Northumbria University, is the author of Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South.

Martyn Bone, associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen, is the author of The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction.