DENNIS B. DOWNEY is a Professor of History at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of a dozen scholarly articles and essays, and co-author of No Crooked Death: Coatesville, Pennsylvania and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker (1991), which won an Outstanding Book award from the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights. Downey is also the author of a forthcoming book on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and Victorian America. FRANCIS J. BREMER is Professor of History at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He is the former editor of Pennsylvania History and is currently editor of The Winthrop Papers for the Massachusetts Historical Society. Dr. Bremer has published numerous studies of seventeenth-century Anglo-America. Two new studies, The Congregational Communion: Clerical Friendship in the Anglo-American Puritan Community, 1610-1692 and Shaping New England will be published in 1994 as will a revision of The Puritan Experiment.