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Experience History: Interpreting America’s Past, 7/e

James West Davidson
Brian DeLay
Christine Leigh Heyrman
Mark H. Lytle
Michael B. Stoff

ISBN: 0073385670
Copyright year: 2011

About the Authors



JAMES WEST DAVIDSON

Received his Ph.D. from Yale University . A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, he is the author of numerous books, among them 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, in which his own most recent book appears: ‘They Say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race (2007).

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.

CHRISTINE LEIGH HEYRMAN

Is the Robert W. and Shirley P. Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware . She received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts , 1690–1750. Her book Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 1998.

MARK H. LYTLE

A Ph.D. from Yale University , is Professor of History and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Bard College. He has 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. He is also co-editor of a joint issue of the journals Diplomatic History and Environmental History dedicated to the field of environmental diplomacy.

MICHAEL B. STOFF

Is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Plan II Honors Program 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 election to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. 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. Hall Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age, and series co-editor (with James West Davidson) of the Oxford New arratives in American History. He is currently working on a narrative of the bombing of Nagasaki .

 

 


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