United States History Student Edition

Authors

Daina Ramey Berry, Ph.D., is the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author and editor of several books, including The Price for Their Pound of Flesh, which won three book awards, and co-author of A Black Women’s History of the United States, which was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in Literary Non-Fiction. Dr. Berry is an Associate Editor for the Journal of African American History and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Albert S. Broussard, Ph.D., is professor of History at Texas A&M University, where he has taught since 1985. Professor Broussard has published three books, Expectations of Equality: A History of Black Westerners; Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900–1954; and African American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853–1963. He is a former president of the Oral History Association and a former chair of the Nominating Committee of the Organization of American Historians. Dr. Broussard was the recipient of a distinguished teaching award from Texas A&M University in 1997 and presented the University Distinguished Faculty lecture in 2000. In the spring of 2005, he was the Langston Hughes Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. Dr. Broussard also served three terms on the board of directors of Humanities Texas and as a consultant to the Texas Education Agency. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Lorri Glover, Ph.D., is the Bannon Endowed Chair in the History Department at Saint Louis University. She is the author or editor of ten books, including Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries; The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution; and Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution. Glover has served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians, a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians, and on the Executive Council of the Southern Historical Association. James M. McPherson, Ph.D., is George Henry Davis Professor Emeritus of American History at Princeton University. Dr. McPherson is the author of 11 books about the Civil War era, including Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, for which he won the 2009 Lincoln Prize. Dr. McPherson is a member of many professional historical associations, including the American Battlefield Trust. Donald A. Ritchie, Ph.D., is Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate. Dr. Ritchie received his doctorate in American history from the University of Maryland after service in the U.S. Marine Corps. He has taught American history at various levels, from high school to university, and is the author of several books, including The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction ; Reporting from Washington: A History of the Washington Press Corps ; and Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents , which received the Organization of American Historians’ Richard W. Leopold Prize. Dr. Ritchie has served as president of the Oral History Association and as a council member of the American Historical Association.

Contributing Author

Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College, having been an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association William S. Grey citation of merit, an Exemplary Leader award from the Conference on English Leadership of NCTE, as well as a Christa McAuliffe award for excellence in teacher education. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design as well as books, such as The Distance Learning Playbook; PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design; and Visible Learning for Social Studies.

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