The Cambridge History of America and the World

Kristin Hoganson is the Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of several previous books, including Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (2000); Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity 1865-1920 (2007); The Heartland: An American History (2019); and co-editor (with Jay Sexton) of Crossing Empires: Taking US History into Transimperial Terrain (2020).

Jay Sexton is the Kinder Institute Chair of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873 (2005); The Monroe Doctrine: Nation and Empire in Nineteenth-Century America (2011); A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History (2019); as well as several collaborative volumes that probe global dimensions of American history including (with Kristin Hoganson) Crossing Empires: Taking US History into Transimperial Terrain (2020).