General Editor: Gary B. Nash received a Ph. D. from Princeton University. He is director of the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches American history of the colonial and Revolutionary era. He is a published author of college and precollegiate history texts. Among his bestselling works are the coauthored American People: Creating a Nation and Society (Longman, 1998), now in its seventh edition; American Odyssey: The U. S. in the Twentieth Century (McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, 1999), now in its fourth edition; and The Atlas of American History, coauthored with Carter Smith (Facts On File, 2006).
Nash is an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Antiquarian Society, and the American Philosophical Society. He has served as past president of the Organization of American Historians in 1994-95 and was a founding member of the National Council for History Education. His latest books include First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (Viking, 2005), and The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Era of Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2006).
Volume I Editor: Peter C. Mancall is professor of history and anthropology at the University of Southern California (USC) and director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He received a Ph. D. from Harvard University and is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. He is the author of several books, including Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (Cornell University Press, 1995), Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (Yale University Press, 2007), and Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry
Hudson (Basic Books, 2009), and the editor of eight books, including Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery (Oxford University Press, 2006) and The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Volume II Editor: Billy G. Smith, Montana State University, received a Ph. D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published numerous books, including The “Lower Sort”: Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 17501800 (Cornell University Press, 1990), Down and Out in Early America (Pennsylvania State Press, 2004), and Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press).
Volume III Editor: Paul A. Gilje, is professor of history, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professor, and a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma. After graduating with a B. A. in history from Brooklyn College, CUNY, he earned an M. A. and Ph. D. from Brown University. He is the author of several books, including The Making of the American Republic, 1763-1815 (Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 2006); Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Society and Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004); Rioting in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996); The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763 to 1834 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, 1987). In 2004 Liberty on the Waterfront won both the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Best Book Award and the North American Society for Oceanic History John Lyman Book Award for best book on U. S. maritime history. Gilje served as president of the Society for Historians of the Early Republic in 2008-2009.
Volume IV Editor: Malcolm J. Rohrbough, University of Iowa, holds a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of several books, including Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (University of California Press, 1996), and is coeditor of a 10-volume history of the trans-Appalachian frontier published by Indiana University Press.
Volume V Editor: Joan Waugh is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. She is the author of Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Harvard University Press, 1998) and the forthcoming Ulysses S. Grant, American Hero, American Myth (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Recently published books include (with Alice Fahs) The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) and (with Gary W. Gallagher) Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
Volume VI Editor: Ari Hoogenboom, professor emeritus, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, received a Ph. D. from Columbia University. He is the coeditor of The Gilded Age (Prentice Hall, 1967) and the author of Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President (University Press of Kansas, 1995), among other books and articles. His latest book is Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
Volume VII Editor: Elizabeth Faue, Wayne State University, received a Ph. D. from the University ofMinnesota. She is the author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 1991) and Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism (Cornell University Press, 2002).
Volume VIII Editor: John W. Jeffries, dean of arts, humanities, and social sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, received a Ph. D. from Yale University. He is the author of several books, including Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (Ivan Dee, 1996).
Volume IX Editors: Allan M. Winkler, Miami University of Ohio, received a Ph. D. from Yale University. He is the author of several books, including Life under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom (Oxford University Press, 1993) and a best-selling textbook, The American People: Creating a Nation and Society (with Gary B. Nash), now in its seventh edition.
Charlene Mires, Villanova University, edited revisions and additions to the current edition. She received a Ph. D. from Temple University and is the author of Independence Hall in American Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).
Volume X Editor: Donald T. Critchlow, St. Louis University, received a Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 1999), Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade (Princeton University Press, 2005), and The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (Harvard University Press, 2007).
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