An Assembly of Demigods: Word Portraits of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention by Their Contemporaries

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, where he is also editor of the multivolume Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. 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.

 Timothy Moore currently serves as the Deputy Director for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin as a documentary editor of the Documentary History of the American Constitution. His responsibilities at the Center include developing outreach programming and writing curricular materials featuring primary source materials on the American Founding Period. Prior to coming to the Center, Moore was a high school teacher for thirty years. He also served as a mentor teacher in various professional development settings and as an educational consultant for organizations focusing on history and civic education.