THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY

Alexandra is a recent graduate of Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts, where she earned a B.A. with a double major in History and Dance and graduated Summa Cum Laude. During her time at Dean, she was recognized with the Artistic Excellence Award from the Joan Phelps Palladino School of Dance for her contributions to the arts and the community. Her academic and creative endeavors reflect strong interdisciplinary excellence in both history and the performing arts. A native of Colorado, Alexandra has fostered deep connections on the East Coast and plans to pursue her career in the area. Her future plans include continuing her studies in a graduate program with a focus in archives and pursuing contemporary dance performance.

William R. Patterson has a Ph.D. in International Studies from Old Dominion University. He is a former Associate Professor at Camp Community College and Adjunct Professor at ODU. He is co-author of the book Markets and Conflict: Economics of War and Peace (2024) and author of the book Democratic Counterinsurgents: How Democracies Can Prevail in Irregular Warfare (2016) as well as dozens of journal articles and academic reference entries.

David Salzillo Jr. was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 2001 and has since then been a lifelong resident of Providence and Rhode Island, where he attended Providence public schools. He obtained a B.A. in American Studies and History from Providence College in May 2024, and is currently a 1L student at the Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Arthur Scherr, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history at the City University of New York. He has published numerous books and articles about the history of the early American republic. His latest book is The Richmond Enquirer and the Haitian Revolution: Unorthodox Journalistic Voices from the Antebellum South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

Harvey Strum is a professor of history and political science at Russell Sage College, and program director for history. His research interests include the early national period, American and Canadian aid to Ireland in 1847, 1863, and 1880, American Jewish history, and anti-Catholicism in New Jersey, 1820-1870.

Paul Teed is Professor of History at Saginaw Valley State University where he has taught since 1997. He is the author of Joseph and Harriet Hawley’s Civil War (2019), A Revolutionary Conscience: Theodore Parker and Antebellum America (2012), John Quincy Adams: Yankee Nationalist (2006), as well as coauthor of Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South (2020) and Reconstruction: Guides to Historical Events in America (2015).  He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of the Early Republic, Civil War History, Connecticut History, and American Studies.  He has won several awards for his teaching and scholarship including Distinguished Professor of the Year, from the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan in 2012.  His current project is a study of radical antislavery activism among midwestern Presbyterians in the antebellum era.