Acknowledgments
The books in the Humanities Open Book collection are made available through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who jointly funded the Humanities Open Book Program with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Project Staff, Northeastern University Library
Hillary Corbett, Director of Communications — Project Director
(Formerly: Director of Scholarly Communication & Digital Publishing)
Steven Braun, Digital Visualization Specialist
David Cliff, Senior Digital Repository Developer
Jon Reed, Digital Media and Audio Production Specialist
(Formerly: Communications and Outreach Specialist)
Bahare Sanaie-Movahed, Geographic Information Systems Specialist
Sarah Sweeney, Digital Repository Manager
Additional Project Support
Kara Caputo — Permissions
Newgen — Scanning and ebook file production
Steve Straus, THINK Book Works — Cover design
Advisory Board
Michael P. Burton, Editorial Director, University Press of New England
Dan Cohen, Dean of the Library, Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, and Professor of History
Northeastern University
William M. Fowler, Jr., Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, Northeastern University, and
former Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Michelle LeBlanc, Director of Education, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public
Library
Giordana Mecagni, University Archivist and Head of Special Collections, Northeastern
University Library
Karen Merguerian, History Librarian and Head of Arts, Social Sciences, and
Humanities, Northeastern University Library
Amanda Rust, Assistant Head of Digital Scholarship Group and Digital Humanities
Librarian, Northeastern University Library
Foreword Authors
Robert J. Allison, Professor of History, Suffolk University
Jonathan M. Chu, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Boston
B. D. Colen, Documentary photographer
Hillary Corbett, M.A., American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
Karilyn Crockett, Lecturer of Public Policy and Urban Planning, MIT
Julie de Chantal, Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Southern University
Jill Eshelman, Ph.D., Sociology, Northeastern University
Willam M. Fowler, Jr., Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, Northeastern University
Mark Herlihy, Assistant Professor of History, Endicott College
Lawrence W. Kennedy, Professor of History, University of Scranton
Jeffrey E. Klee, Shirley and Richard Roberts Architectural Historian, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Stony Brook University
James M. O’Toole, Professor and Clough Millennium Chair in History, Boston College
Scott Podolsky, M.D., Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
Gordana Rabrenovic, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, Northeastern University