Lael Morgan is an author with 16 published books, such as Good Time Girls of the Alaska Yukon Gold Rush, which won her the title of Historian of the Year in 1998 from the Alaska Historical Society. Her other forays into Alaska studies include And the Land Provides: Alaska Natives in a Year of Transition (1974), The Aleutians (1980), Art and Eskimo Power: The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock (1988) and Eskimo Star: From Tundra to Tinseltown: the Ray Mala Story (2011).

Jean Pollard is a retired Anchorage educator whose research and group leadership in documenting the important role that African-American troops performed in building the Al-Can (Alaska Highway) during World War II has helped to correct the historic record.