Hettie V. Williams is associate professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University. Williams is the current president of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and author, editor, or coeditor of several books including Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union, published by University Press of Mississippi. Melissa Ziobro is specialist professor of public history. She serves as editor for New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal,¿a joint venture of the New Jersey Historical Commission, Rutgers University Libraries, and Monmouth University.