Bruce M. Stave is professor of History and director of the Center for Oral History at the University of Connecticut. He is co-author of From the Old Country: An Oral History of European Migration to America, which was published in the Twayne Oral History Series and won the 1995 Homer D. Babbidge, Jr. Award. He has published eight other books and has served as editor of The Oral History Review an d Associate Editor of the Journal of Urban History.

Michele Palmer is a freelance writer and editor. The former manager of Tapescribe, the transcribing service of the Center for Oral History at the University of Connecticut, she is co-author, with Bruce M. Stave, of Mills and Meadows: A Pictorial History of Northeast Connecticut. She is currently working on an oral history of Philadelphia's Fabric Row. She also writes for children under the name Malka Penn.

Leslie Frank is a doctoral student in history at the University of Connecticut. Her interests include the history of work, identity, and technology. She compiled the catalog for the Witnesses to Nuremberg oral history project.