Kennedy, David: - David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus and founding Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He also serves as General Editor of the OXFORD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES series. His volume in the series, FREEDOM FROM FEAR: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN DEPRESSION AND WAR, 1929-1945, won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Ambassador's Prize and the California Gold Medal for Literature. He is also the author of OVER HERE: THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND AMERICAN SOCIETY, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and BIRTH CONTROL IN AMERICA: THE CAREER OF MARGARET SANGER, which won the Bancroft and John Gilmary Shea Prizes. He is also editor of THE MODERN AMERICAN MILITARY, and co-editor of WORLD WAR II AND THE WEST IT WROUGHT. He lives in Stanford, California.

O'Mara, Margaret: - Margaret O'Mara holds the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History at the University of Washington. She is the author of THE CODE: SILICON VALLEY AND THE REMAKING OF AMERICA; PIVOTAL TUESDAYS: FOUR ELECTIONS THAT SHAPED THE TWENTIETH CENTURY and CITIES OF KNOWLEDGE: COLD WAR SCIENCE AND THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT SILICON VALLEY. She also is an editor of the POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN MODERN AMERICA series at Princeton University Press. Her writing and historical commentary appear regularly in national and international media outlets and she is a former contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. She received her MA/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, her BA from Northwestern University and she is an alumna of Little Rock Central High School. She lives in Mercer Island, Washington.