Ian C. G. Burrow is vice president and a principal archaeologist at Hunter Research, Inc. He has studied several Revolutionary War-era sites in New Jersey, among them the Old Barracks in Trenton, the Pluckemin artillery camp, and the Vanderveer House in Bedminster. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and is the current president of the American Cultural Resource Association.
Delight W. Dodyk is a former member of the History Department at Drew University. She currently serves as president of the Board of Trustees of the Women’s Project of New Jersey, publisher of the landmark work Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women (1990, 1997). Her recent publications include The Diary of Sarah Reid, a New Jersey Farm Woman (2001).
Thomas Fleming is one of America’s most renowned historians of the Revolution. During his almost forty-year career, he has authored numerous works, including Liberty! The American Revolution, which accompanied a 1997 six-part television series and was named the best book of the year by the American Revolution Roundtable, and 1776: Year of Illusions (1975). He is a fellow of the Society of American Historians.
David J. Fowler is the former director of the David Library of the American Revolution at Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. His career has been devoted to research, archival studies, and publications, including Egregious Villains, Wood Rangers, and London Traders: The Pine Robber Phenomenon in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War (1987).
Harriette C. Hawkins is the former executive director of the New Jersey Historic Trust. She is an authority on American architectural history and material culture and has lectured widely on issues related to historic preservation and open space. She served as project director for The Economic Impact of Historic Preservation in New Jersey (1996).
Richard W. Hunter is the founder and president of Hunter Research, Inc., a firm that specializes in historical and archaeological research and historic preservation. He has studied several Revolutionary War-era sites in New Jersey, among them the Middlebrook Encampments, the Zabriskie/Von Steuben House at New Bridge Landing, and Princeton Battlefield. He is a past president of Preservation New Jersey, a former member of the state Historic Sites Review Board, and currently vice president of the Trenton Downtown Association.
State Senator Leonard Lance, currently the Republican Minority leader in the New Jersey Senate, has served in the New Jersey Legislature in both the Assembly and Senate since 1991. He is a member of the Budget and Appropriations and Joint Budget Oversight Committees, as well as the Legislative Services Commission, and has sponsored a number of bills impacting education, health care and legislative ethics.Son of former legislator Wesley L. Lance, Senator Lance was given the Paul L. Troast Award of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association and is a trustee of The Newark Museum, Centenary College and McCarter Theatre.
Mark Edward Lender is a professor of American history and former dean of the Nathan Weiss Graduate College at Kean University. He is a nationally recognized authority on the military aspects of the American Revolution. His New Jersey publications include The New Jersey Soldier (1975) and One State in Arms: A Short Military History of New Jersey (1991).
Maxine N. Lurie is an associate professor at Seton Hall University. A distinguished historian of colonial America, she is the foremost authority on the New Jersey Constitution of 1776. In addition to her numerous publications, she recently served as coeditor of the Encyclopedia of New Jersey (2004).
Barbara J. Mitnick is an art historian and adjunct professor of American history painting in the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University. Her numerous exhibitions include Picturing History: American Painting 1770-1930 (1993-1995) and George Washington: American Symbol (1999), for which she served as general editor of the accompanying publication. She is the former chair of the Task Force on New Jersey History and the New Jersey Historic Trust.
Merrill Maguire Skaggs is Baldwin Professor of the Humanities in Brothers College and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University. She is a recognized authority on American literature and has won several awards for her writing. Her recent publications include Willa Cather’s New York: New Essays on Cather and the City (2000).
Lorraine E. Williams is New Jersey’s State archaeologist and curator of Archaeology and Ethnology at the New Jersey State Museum, where she manages the state’s nationally recognized archaeological collections. She has contributed to numerous publications and has curated exhibitions including “Preserving Identity: New Jersey’s Indians” (2004) and “Cultures in Competition: Indians and Europeans in Colonial New Jersey” (2002).
Giles R. Wright is an authority on the history of African Americans in New Jersey and director of the Afro-American History Program at the New Jersey Historical Commission. His publications include Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History (1988) and “Steal Away, Steal Away”: A Guide to the Underground Railroad in New Jersey (2002).
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