Jeannie M. Whayne is university professor at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South and A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth Century Arkansas.

Thomas A. DeBlack is retired professor of history at Arkansas Tech University. He is the author of With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861-1874.

George Sabo III is professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas and director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey. His publications include Rock Art in Arkansas and Paths of Our Children: Historic Indians of Arkansas.

Morris S. Arnold is a United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit. He is the author of Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804: A Social and Cultural History and The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804.