Susanna Delfino is Associate Professor of American History in the Department of European Research at the University of Genoa, Italy. She lives in Albissola Marina, a city in Savona, Italy.Michele Gillespie, the Kahle Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wake Forest University, resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She and Susanna Delfino previously collaborated as editors of "Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization "and "Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South "(both available from University of Missouri Press).Louis M. Kyriakoudes is Director of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage as well as Associate Professor of History at The University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of "The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930." He lives in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.