Roy Talbert, Jr. is a professor of history at Coastal Carolina University, USA where he has taught since 1979. Talbert's publications include FDR's Utopian: Arthur Morgan of the TVA, which led to his appearance on the History Channel, and the award-winning Negative Intelligence: The Army and the American Left, 1917-1941. He is also the author of Coastal Carolina University: The First 50 Years and So Much To Be Thankful For and coeditor of The Journal of Peter Horry, South Carolinian: Recording the New Republic, 1812-1814 (University of South Carolina Press).

Meggan A. Farish is a graduate of Coastal Carolina University, USA and a history doctoral candidate at Duke University, USA. Farish was research assistant for the Waccamaw Center for Cultural and Historical Studies and an archives professor at the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, USA.