James West Davidson received his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, his works include After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with Mark H. Lytle), The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth-Century New England, and Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge). He is co-editor with Michael Stoff of the Oxford New Narratives in American History, which includes his study ‘They Say’: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race. Most recently he wrote A Little History of the United States.
Brian DeLay received his Ph.D. from Harvard and is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a frequent guest speaker at teacher workshops across the country and has won several prizes for his book War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. His current book project, Shoot the State, explores the connection between guns, freedom, and domination around the Western Hemisphere, from the American Revolution through World War II.
Christine Leigh Heyrman is the Robert W. and ShirleyP. Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. The author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690–1750, she received the Bancroft Prize for her second book, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, and the Parkman Prize for her third, American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam. Her latest book, forthcoming, is Doomed Romance: A Story of Broken Hearts, Lost Souls and Sexual Politics in Nineteenth-Century America.
Mark H. Lytle, a Ph.D. from Yale University, is the Lyford Paterson and Mary Gray Edwards Professor of History Emeritus at Bard College. He served two years as Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College Dublin, in Ireland. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian- American Alliance, 1941–1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson), America’s Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, and most recently, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. His forthcoming book, The All-Consuming Nation, considers the tension between the post–World War II consumer democracy and its environmental costs.
Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History and University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a Ph.D. from Yale University, he has been honored many times for his teaching, most recently with the University of Texas systemwide Regents Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2008, he was named an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. He is the author of Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil, 1941–1947, co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age, and series co-editor (with James West Davidson) of the Oxford New Narratives in American History. He is currently working on a narrative of the bombing of Nagasaki.
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