Karolyn Smardz Frost is an archaeologist and historian who specializes in African Canadian/American transnationalism. She is senior research fellow atthe Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, Canada and a Harrison McCain Visiting Professor at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Her volume I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad won Canada's top literary distinction, the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction.

Veta Smith Tucker ended a career of more than four decades in education as a professor of English and African American studies at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, USA where she was founding director of the Kutsche Office of Local History. Tucker was appointed by two Michigan governors to the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission and has served as both a member and elected officer.

Books by Karolyn Smardz Frost