Frank Felsenstein is Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor in Humanities and professor of English at Ball State University, USA. He is author of English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World.James J. Connolly is director of the Center for Middletown Studies and Frances Bell Distinguished Professor of History at Ball State University, USA. He is the author, most recently, of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America.

Frank Felsenstein is Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor in Humanities and professor of English at Ball State University, USA. He is author of English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World.James J. Connolly is director of the Center for Middletown Studies and Frances Bell Distinguished Professor of History at Ball State University, USA. He is the author, most recently, of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America.

Frank Felsenstein is Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor in Humanities and professor of English at Ball State University, USA. He is author of English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World.James J. Connolly is director of the Center for Middletown Studies and Frances Bell Distinguished Professor of History at Ball State University, USA. He is the author, most recently, of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America.