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James G Thomas Jr Editor

Darren E. Grem is associate professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi, author of The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity,and coeditor of The Business Turn in American Religious History.

Ted Ownby is William F. Winter Professor of History and professor of southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is editor of The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South, Manners and Southern History, The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, and Black and White: Cultural Interactions in the Antebellum South and coeditor of Clothing and Fashion in Southern History, The Mississippi Encyclopedia,and Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

James G. Thomas, Jr., is associate director for publications at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, editor of multiple works on southern literature, and former managing editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.