Michael W. Dean holds a BA in Philosophy and the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington and an MA and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently teaching in the History Department at Seattle University. His research interests include the social and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a global context, as well as the history and theories of nationalism, imperialism, and world history.

J. T. Murphy received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He served as assistant editor on volumes 17–20 of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant and taught at Temple College, Bemidji State University, and Indiana University South Bend. He retired as a professor of history in 2021. His research focuses on the American West, the military, and the idea of manliness.

Alonzo M. Ward is currently...

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