The late Leonard J. Arrington was Lemuel Redd Professor of Western History at Brigham Young University, LDS Church Historian, director of the LDS Historical Department, and director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Church History at BYU. A founding member and past president of the Western History Association, he was the author of over twenty books. Ronald W. Walker is a professor of history at Brigham Young University and author of Qualities that Count: Heber J. Grant as Businessman, Missionary, and Apostle and Wayward Saints: The Godeites and Brigham Young.
Richard Howard is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.
Lawrence Foster is a professor of American history in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech University. He is the author of Free Love in Utopia: John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida Community.
