G. Kurt Piehler is author of Remembering War the American Way (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995; reprint ed., 2004), author of World War II (American Soldiers' Lives Series, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007), and co-editor of Major Problems in American Military History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999). He is consulting editor for the Oxford Companion to American Military History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) and associate editor of Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (New York: Macmillan Reference/Gale, 2005). His articles have appeared in the History of Education Quarterly, Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, and the anthology Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994). As founding director (1994-98) of the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, Piehler conducted more than 200 interviews with veterans of this conflict. Sidney Pash is an assistant professor of history at Fayetteville State University, where he teaches courses in U.S., world, and East Asian history. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 from Rutgers University, where he specialized in interwar U.S.-Japanese diplomatic relations. His most recent works have appeared in the Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians, The New England Journal of History, and in Jose¿ de Arimate¿ia da Cruz, Becky K. da Cruz, and Andrew J. Dowdle, eds., American Politics: Transformation and Change (Upper Saddle River, N.J.:Pearson, 2004).
