Lawrence H. Larsen is a professor of history at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is the author of The Urban South: A History (1990), Federal Justice in Western Missouri: The Judges, the Cases, the Times (1994), and other books.
Barbara J. Cottrell is a historian with the National Archives–Central Plains Region.
Harl A. Dalstrom is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.