Claire Bond Potter is a professor of history and American studies at Wesleyan University. She is author of "War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture" and also the blog "Tenured Radical." Renee C. Romano is an associate professor of history at Oberlin College. She is author of "Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America" and coeditor of "The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory" (Georgia).