A People and a Nation

Author Biographies

Mary Beth Norton currently teaches at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1969, when her dissertation won the prestigious Allan Nevins Prize. Her publications include Founding Mothers and Fathers, a 1997 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Her most recent book, reconsidering the Salem witch trials, was published by Knopf in 2003. She is also the co-editor of Major Problems in American Women's History.

David Katzman is currently a Professor at University of Kansas and received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1969. He has co-edited Technical Knowledge in American Culture (1996) and authored Three Generations in 20th Century America. In the spring of 2002 he taught American Studies in Kobe, Japan.

David Blight is a professor at Amherst College and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1985. He has written a number of books and articles about African-American and intellectual history including Frederick Douglass, Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. His most recent book, Race and Reunion, has won seven awards, including the very prestigious Lincoln Prize and Columbia University's Bancroft Prize.

Howard Chudacoff currently teaches at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1969. He has authored The Evolution of American Urban Society, and he is the editor of Major Problems in American Urban History.

Fredrik Logevall currently teaches at U.C. Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993. He is the author of Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam and The Origins of the Vietnam War, and he is a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of American Policy. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2001 Warren F. Kuehl Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Beth Bailey is currently teaching at the University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1986. She has written a number of books, most recently, Sex in the Heartland: and is also the co-editor of A History of Our Time. She has taught in Indonesia and Japan, and has been awarded the Regents' Lectureship at the University of New Mexico.




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