The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution co-editor John P. Kaminski is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A professor emeritus from the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is the author or editor of twenty-five other books on early American history, including the new Society Press series of Word Portraits of America's founders, which includes: George Washington: A Man of Action and Alexander Hamilton: From Obscurity to Greatness. The Ratification of the Constitution of the United States Series is edited by John P. Kaminski, Charles H. Schoenleber, Gaspare J. Saladino, Jonathan M. Reid, Margaret P. Flamingo, David P. Fields, and Timothy D. Moore.