About our authors
John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Born in Arizona and raised in southern California, he received his B.A. at the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979), Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986), Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992), The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland (2005) and Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles (2016).
Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor Emerita of American Civilization and History at Brown University, specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left (2nd Edition, 1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (1991 to 1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is currently an Honorary Fellow of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Born and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era (2016), Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982) and co-author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008). He served as the historical adviser for the BBC America dramatic series Copper (2011 to 2013), and he has appeared as featured on-camera commentator in numerous documentary film projects, including the PBS productions New York: A Documentary Film; The Rise and Fall of Penn Station; American Photography: A Century of Images; and the forthcoming Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People.
Susan H. Armitage is Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Emerita, at Washington State University, where she was a Claudius O. and Mary R. Johnson Distinguished Professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications on western women’s history are 3 co-edited books, The Women’s West (1987), So Much to Be Done: Women on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1991) and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West (1997). She served as editor of the feminist journal Frontiers from 1996 to 2002. Her most recent publications are Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865–Present (2009) and Shaping the Public Good: Women Making History in the Pacific Northwest (2015).
