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 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 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).