Peter J Kastor Editor & Author

Peter J. Kastor, Associate Professor of History and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America. Francois Weil is Director Etudes and Director of the Center for North American Studies at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and the coauthor of Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation.