Maxine N Lurie Editor & Author

Maxine N. Lurie is professor emerita of history at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, USA and chairs the New Jersey Historical Commission. She previously collaborated with Richard Veit on New Jersey: A History of the Garden State, and she is the coeditor of The Encyclopedia of New Jersey and Mapping New Jersey, as well as the editor of two editions of A New Jersey Anthology (all by Rutgers University Press).

Richard F. Veit is a professor of anthropology and chair of the department of history and anthropology at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. He is the author of Digging New Jersey's Past and coauthor of New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape, as well as coeditor of New Jersey: A History of the Garden State (with Lurie, all by Rutgers University Press).