David Carlton is associate professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880–1920 and co-authored, with Peter A. Coclanis, The South, the Nation, and the World: Essays in Southern Economic Development. As a research fellow at the Global Research Institute of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010–2011, he was part of an interdisciplinary team seeking understanding of the industrial crisis facing North Carolina and the South.
Sheri Cash is a high school social studies teacher with 19 years of experience. U.S. history has been her main focus for the last ten years. She has a doctorate in curriculum and instruction because lesson planning is one of her passions. A trivia tidbit - Jane Addams is one of her historical heroes.
Dewayne Lawson has taught for 21 years in public, independent, and parochial schools in Illinois, Georgia, and South Carolina. Dewayne currently teaches 8th grade social studies at R. C. Edwards Middle School in Central, SC. A graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, KY with a degree in Middle Grades Education, Dewayne lives in Clemson, SC with his wife, Dr. Bridget Trogden and son Jacob.