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Cornelis A van Minnen Editor

Cornelis A. van Minnen is director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands, and professor of American history at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant and coeditor of Political Repression in U.S. History.

Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American history of the Center for American Studies at Heidelberg University in Germany. He is the author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America and “The Ticket to Freedom”: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration.