The core faculty members are co-directors Jan Leone, Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University and specialist in American Women’s history, and Marsha Mullin, Chief Curator and Director of Museum Services at The Hermitage; and master teachers Chad McGee and Teresa Prater from Warren County, Tennessee, and Janice Tant from Nashville, Tennessee. Workshop participants will study with visiting scholars who are widely recognized for their expertise in the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the early nineteenth century. In addition to Daniel Feller, visiting scholars include Harry Watson of UNC – Chapel Hill and author of Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America; Adonijah Bakari, Associate Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University where he directs the African American Studies Program and teaches classes in African American Studies and History; Rebecca Conard, Professor of Public History at Middle Tennessee State University, specialist in public and environmental history and whose most recent monograph is Benjamin Shambough and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History; Connie Lester of the University of Central Florida, agricultural, economic, and southern historian; Susan Myers-Shirk, Associate Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University, specialist in American cultural and religious history; David Rowe of Middle Tennessee State University, historian of religion and nineteenth-century American history; Ann Toplovich, Executive Director of the Tennessee Historical Society, whose forthcoming book focuses on the life of Rachel Donelson Jackson; and Daniel Usner of Vanderbilt University, historian of the South during the colonial and early national periods and Indian–U.S. relations through the nineteenth century and author of American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley (1998); The Hermitage professional staff includes Kevin Bartoy, manager of the archaeology program at The Hermitage; Robbie Jones, architectural historian at The Hermitage; and Janie Carder, director of the education program at The Hermitage.