About the Editors

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 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).