Co-Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Thomas H. Cox of the SHSU history department received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is an expert in American and U.S. constitutional history. He is author of Gibbons v. Ogden, Law and Society in the Early Republic (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009). During 2009-2010 he served as Fulbright lecturer of constitutional history at Northeast Normal University in Changchun China. Professor Cox has participated in two on-line projects: Democracy and Diversity in Walker Country and World War I and the Meaning of American Democracy. In 2012 he received an Outstanding On-Line Teacher Award from Sam Houston State University.

Co-Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Jeffrey Littlejohn of the SHSU history department received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. He has written on civil rights, constitutional history, and the African American experience in Virginia. He is author of Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012). Littlejohn has also developed numerous digital projects, including Democracy and Diversity in Walker County Texas, World War I and the Meaning of American Democracy, and The Brown Decision in Norfolk, Virginia.

Advisory Committee Member: Associate Professor Brian Domitrovic is Chair of the SHSU history department. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is an expert in American and European economic history and is the author of Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity (New York: ISI Books, 2009).

Advisory Committee Member: Professor Robert “Ty” Cashion of the SHSU history department received his Ph.D. from Texas Christian University. He is an expert on Texas history. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Professor Cashion's works include Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2006), and A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996).

Advisory Committee Member: Distinguished Professor James Olson of the SHSU history department obtained his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Olson has over thirty books including Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945 to 1990 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2011), John Wayne American (New York: The Free Press, 1995), and Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).

Module Author: Stacey Blackstone is a graduate student in history at Sam Houston State University. A former high school teacher, she lives in Rockwall Texas.

Module Author: Micki Brady is a graduate student in history at Sam Houston State University. She works as an administrator in the oil and gas industry and plans to pursue a career as a high school teacher.

Module Author: Lisa Emerson is a graduate student in history at Sam Houston State University. She is a social studies high school teacher in Harrington Maine.

Module Author: Amy Hyden is a graduate of Sam Houston State University and is currently working on an M.A. in history at SHSU. She is a high school teacher in the Conroe, Texas independent school district.

Module Author: Scott Judy is a graduate student in history at Sam Houston State University. He is a social studies teacher at Viewmont High School in Bountiful Utah.

Module Author: Randy Pollard is a Sam Houston State University graduate and is currently pursuing an M.A. in history at SHSU. He is a certified public account with 38 years of experience.

Module Author: Timothy Quevillon is a history graduate student at Sam Houston State University. The recipient of an M.A. in Sociology from Louisiana State University, he works as a researcher for a minority run radio station in New Orleans Louisiana.

Module Author: Nicole Truelove received her ME.d from West Texas A&M University. She is currently Director of the Onalaska Public Library in Onalaska Texas.

External Evaluator: Stephen S. Cure is Director of Educational Services at the Texas State Historical Association. He is a graduate of the University of Texas.

Lesson Plan Content Developer: Meredith Austin is a graduate of the University of Texas, Arlington and currently is completing an M.A. in history at Sam Houston State University. She is a social studies teacher at the GT Academy in Pearland Texas. She has published on the history of Walker County Texas.

Lesson Plan Content Developer: Crystal Taska is a graduate of Texas A&M University and is currently a graduate student in history at Sam Houston State University. She is a social studies teacher at Tidehaven ISD.