about tHe autHorS
JASON STACy is associate professor of US History
and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville. Before joining the history
department at SIUE, Stacy taught AP® US History
for eight years at Adlai E. Stevenson High School
in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Stacy has served as an AP®
US History reader, table leader, exam leader, consul-
tant, senior auditor, and question author for the re-
designed AP® US History exam.
Stacy is the author of Walt Whitman’s Multitudes:
Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass,
1840–1855 (2008), editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile
Edition (2009), and coeditor of Walt Whitman’s Selected Journalism (2015). His
research has appeared in Studies in American Culture, Social Education, the Wa l t
Whitman Quarterly Review, and American Educational History, and his reviews
have appeared in American Literature, the Journal of American History, and the
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. Stacy is also a contributing editor for the Walt
Whitman Archive.
Since 2009, Stacy has served as editor in chief of The Councilor: A Journal of
the Social Studies. He is a former president of the Illinois Council for the Social
Studies (2014).STEPHEN HELLER has taught for twenty-eight years in
the Chicago area, the last sixteen of which have been
at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire,
Illinois, where he teaches AP® English Language and
Composition. Heller has served as an AP® English
Language and Composition reader, table leader,
question leader, and consultant, and he recently com-
pleted a six-year term on the AP® English Language
and Composition test development committee, where
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