Nancy MacLean teaches history at Northwestern University. She is the
author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku
Klux Klan (Oxford) and, most recently, “Postwar Women’s History: From
the ‘Second Wave’ to the End of the Family Wage?” in A Companion to
Post-1945 America, edited by Roy Rosenzweig and Jean-Christophe Agnew
(Blackwell).