Darren E. Grem, Oxford, Mississippi, is assistant professor of history and southern studies, author of The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity, and coeditor of The Business Turn in American Religious History. Ted Ownby, Oxford, Mississippi, is professor of history and southern studies and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is editor of The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South, Manners and Southern History, and Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South, all published by University Press of Mississippi.James G. Thomas, Jr., Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director for publications at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, is editor of multiple works on southern literature, and was managing editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
