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: 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.
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