Michael David Cohen is a research professor in the Department of Government and a faculty fellow in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. He edited or coedited volumes 12 to 14 of the Correspondence of James K. Polk and authored Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War.

Amy Larrabee Cotz is a fellow in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. An editor of volumes 8 to 12 of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, she earlier researched the lives of enslaved Black Americans at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Montpelier Foundation.