Robert D. Johnston is Professor of History and Director of the Teaching of History Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the editor of The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (Princeton University Press, 2003) and The Making of America: The History of the United States since 1492 (National Geographic, 2010). He has served as interim director of the Jewish Studies program at UIC.