Rebecca EdwardsRebecca Edwards holds the Eloise Ellery Chair as a professor of history at Vassar College. She is the author of Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (Oxford University Pres, 1997) and New Spirits: Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905 (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2010). Read More Read Less