Steve Nolt is a history professor at Goshen College in Goshen, Ind., with formal training as a historian in the areas of U.S. immigration and ethnic history and American religious history. He also has significant personal and professional interest in Mennonite and Amish history and thought. An Anabaptist specialist, he has written extensively about Mennonites, Amish and […]

Maurice Isserman is a professor of history at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the leading historians on the era.

The Posttraumatic Growth Research Group is based at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Their website provides background information and the latest research on the theory of posttraumatic growth.

Richard Tedeschi is a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina Charlotte specializing in post traumatic growth in survivors of various traumas, including combat. He co-edited and the Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth – Research and Practice (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006). He is part of the Posttraumatic Growth Research Group at UNCC.

Lawrence Calhoun is a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina Charlotte specializing in posttraumatic psychological growth. He co-edited and the Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth – Research and Practice (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006). He is part of the Posttraumatic Growth Research Group at UNCC.

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is the largest military medical center in the U.S., serving military beneficiaries in the Washington, D.C. area as well as those from across the country and around the globe.

The National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces (NCMAF) is a Virginia-based organization that recruits, endorses and provides oversight for chaplains in all branches of the military.

The Military Chaplains’ Association of the United States of America serves as the professional organization for chaplains of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Veterans Affairs and Civil Air Patrol and includes members of all faith groups.

Kristin Henderson is an author, Quaker and wife of a Navy chaplain. Her books include While They’re At War: The True Stories of American Families on the Homefront (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).