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 best-selling 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 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).
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