Gary J. Kornblith is a Professor at History at Oberlin College where he has taught since 1981. He was the editor of the anthology The Industrial Revolution in America (1998). He has published numerous articles and is currently working a book entitled Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early Republic and Elusive Utopia: A Historical of Race in Oberlin, Ohio (with Carol Lasser). He was coeditor of the “Textbooks and Teaching” section of the Journal of American History from 2001 to 2007.