William Ivy Hair (1930–1992) was Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Southern History at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. He is the author of several books, including The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long and Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest: Louisiana Politics, 1877–1900.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage is a William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He is the author of A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894–1901 and Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930.