Jack E. Davis is professor of history and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea and coeditor of Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida. Kari Frederickson is professor of history at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She is the author of Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South.