Going to the Source, Volume II: Since 1865: The Bedford Reader in American History
Victoria Bissell Brown is the L.F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College, where she teaches Modern U.S. History, U.S. Women’s History, and U.S. Immigration History. She is the author ofThe Education of Jane Addamsand the editor of the Bedford/St. Martin’s edition of Jane Addams’sTwenty Years at Hull-House. Her articles have appeared inFeminist Studies,The Journal of Women’s History, andThe Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. She has served as a Book Review Editor forThe Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Eraand for the Women and Social Movements website. Timothy J. Shannon is professor of History at Gettysburg College, where he teaches Early American and Native American History. His other books includeIroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier,Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America, andIndians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754, which received the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize from the New York State Historical Association and the Distinguished Book Award from the Society of Colonial Wars. His articles have appeared in theWilliam and Mary Quarterly,Ethnohistory, and theNew England Quarterly, and he has been a research fellow at the Huntington Library and John Carter Brown Library.