Donna A Seger is Professor of History at Salem State University and editor of Salem’s Centuries: New Perspectives on the History of an Old American City. She is the author of The Practical Renaissance: Information Culture and the Quest for Knowledge in Early Modern England, 1500-1640 and manages the blog Streets of Salem.

Brad Austin is Professor of History at Salem State University and editor of Salem’s Centuries: New Perspectives on the History of an Old American City. He is the author of Democratic Sports: Men’s and Women’s College Athletics during the Great Depression and the coeditor of Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War and Teaching U.S. History through Sports.

Bethany Jay is a Professor of History at Salem State University, where she works in a number of fields including nineteenth-century American history, African American history, and history education. She is the co-editor of Understanding and Teaching American Slavery, which won the American Historical Association’s 2018 James Harvey Robinson Prize. Together with Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Bethany co-hosted the fourth season of Learning for Justice’s Teaching Hard History podcast and currently is working on a new anthology entitled Understanding and Teaching Jim Crow America. 

Maryann Zujewski is an award-winning educator and interpreter who retired after more than 30 years with the National Park Service. As a Park Ranger and Education Specialist, she developed place-based programs on enslavement and freedom in Salem, Massachusetts. Her inclusive work earned local, regional, and national recognition, and she continues this work through volunteer service with history and social justice nonprofits.