Mark T. Gilderhus was a specialist in U.S. military and diplomatic history and a former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. After teaching at Colorado State University for twenty-nine years, he became Lyndon Baines Johnson Chair at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. He wrote several books, including History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction (1996) and Diplomacy and Revolution: U.S.-Mexican Relations under Wilson and Carranza (1977). He earned degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Nebraska. Professor Gilderhus died in 2015.
David C. LaFevor is assistant professor of history at University of Texas, Arlington. He earned a BA degree in Latin American studies from Rhodes College and a PhD in history from Vanderbilt University.
Michael J. LaRosa is associate professor of history at Rhodes College. He holds a BA degree in international relations from George Washington University and a PhD in history from the University of Miami.