Carolyn T. Adams, Emeritus Professor and Dean of Liberal Arts at Temple University, has published a half dozen books, including four focused on the Philadelphia region. Howard Gillette, Jr. is Professor of History Emeritus at Rutgers University-Camden and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. He is the author of Camden After the Fall and The Paradox of Urban Revitalization, among other works. Andrew Heath is Senior Lecturer of American History at the University of Sheffield and author of In Union There Is Strength: Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Charlene Mires is Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden and Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Her books include Independence Hall in American Memory, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Jean R. Soderlund is Professor of History Emeritus at Lehigh University. Her books include Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

