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Editors:Bennett H. Wall (deceased) was Professor of History atthe University of Georgia, and instrumental in the foundingand operation of the Louisiana Historical Association and theSouthern Historical Association. He was a renowned scholar insouthern and U.S. business history.John C. Rodrigue is Lawrence and Theresa SalamenoProfessor of History at Stonehill College, in Easton,Massachusetts. He previously taught Louisiana History and othercourses at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is theauthor of several books and scholarly articles onnineteenth-century U.S. and Southern history.Authors:Light Townsend Cummins is the Bryan Professor of History atAustin College in Sherman, Texas, and a leading expert on thehistory of the Spanish Borderlands. In 2009 he was appointed as theofficial State Historian of Texas.Judith Kelleher Schafer teaches American legal history atTulane University and has published two prizewinning books:Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana(1997) and Brothels, Depravity and Abandoned Women (2011),as well as Becoming Free, Remaining Free (2003).Edward F. Haas is professor of history at Wright StateUniversity in Dayton Ohio. He was named a Fellow of the LouisianaHistorical Association, which in 1999 awardedhim the Garnie McGinty Lifetime Meritorious Service Award. Hehas published numerous works on Louisiana and New Orleans historyand has twice won the L. Kemper Williams Prize for excellence inLouisiana scholarship.Michael L. Kurtz is Professor Emeritus of AmericanHistory at Southeastern Louisiana University. His publicationsinclude Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and LouisianaPolitics (1990), Crime of the Century: The KennedyAssassination from a Historian's Perspective (1993),Louisiana Since the Longs (1998), and The JFKAssassination Debates (2006).