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Brian S. Brooks

Brian S. Brooks is associate dean for undergraduate studies and administration at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In addition to coauthoring News Reporting and Writing for Bedford/St. Martin’s, he is coauthor of Telling the Story, Third Edition (2007), Working with Words, Sixth Edition (2006), and The Art of Editing (2009).

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Jeffrey Brooks

Jeffrey Brooks is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Thank You Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (2000) and When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861–1917 (1985; reprinted 2003), which won the Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for best book by an American in 1985. He is also the author of many essays including "Chekhov, Tolstoy, and the Illustrated Press in the 1890s," in Cultural and Social History (Journal of the Social History Society), (2010) and "The Russian Nation Imagined: The Peoples of Russia as Seen in Popular Imagery, 1860s-1890s," in Social History (Spring 2010). Brooks received the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in Arts and Sciences for 2004. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Dee Brown

Dee Brown is a leading authority on western American history and the author of many highly acclaimed books on this subject. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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William Wells Wells Brown

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Victoria Bissell Brown

Victoria Bissell Brown (PhD, UCSD) is the L. F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College. In addition to editing Jane Addams's autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull-House for Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The Education of Jane Addams (U. Penn Press, 2004) and articles on Addams, on Woodrow Wilson and gender, and on female adolescents in the Progressive Era. She is currently working on a social history of the American grandmother in the twentieth century.

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Joshua Brown

Joshua Brown, Visual Editor, is the executive director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and professor of history at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was visual editor of the first edition of Who Built America? and he also coauthored the accompanying CD-ROMs and video documentary series. He has served as executive producer on many digital and Web projects, including Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution; The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum Life and Culture; and The September 11 Digital Archive. Brown is author of Beyond the Lines: The Pictorial Press, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (2002); coauthor (with Eric Foner) of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2005); and coeditor of History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices (1991), as well as numerous essays and reviews on the history of U.S. visual culture.

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Stuart L Brown, MD

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Brenda Jo Brueggemann

Brenda Jo Brueggmann is professor of English and Vice-Chair, a faculty advisor for the American Sign Language program, and coordinator for the interdisciplinary disability studies program at Ohio State University. She is the author of Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places (New York UP, 2009) and Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (Gallaudet UP, 1999), and essays and articles on pedagogy, qualitative research, literacy, rhetoric, deaf and disability studies. She is the editor of and a contributor to Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives (Gallaudet UP, 2004) and coeditor and contributor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (Modern Language Association, 2002) and Women and Deafness: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Gallaudet UP, 2006). She serves as editor for the Gallaudet University Press “Deaf Lives” series (autobiography and biography) and coeditor for the journal, Disability Studies Quarterly.

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W. Fitzhugh Brundage

W. Fitzhugh Brundage has taught history at the University of Florida and is now William B. Umstead Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist on the South and modern U.S. history, he is the editor of Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity (2000) and Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South (1997); author of A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies of Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901 (1996) and Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930 (1993), which won the OAH's Merle Curti Award in 1994. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, the Virginia Historical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Gayle Brunelle

Gayle K. Brunelle (Ph.D. Emory University) is a professor of history at California State University, Fullerton, where she specializes in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World. She is co-author of Murder in the Métro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France, (2010) author of The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559-1630 and, has written numerous articles and book chapters.

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Charles T. Brusaw

Charles T. Brusaw was a faculty member at NCR Corporation's Management College, where he developed and taught courses in professional writing, editing, and presentation skills for the corporation worldwide. Previously, he worked in advertising, technical writing, public relations, and curriculum development. He has been a communications consultant, an invited speaker at academic conferences, and a teacher of business writing at Sinclair Community College.

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Kalisha Buckhanon

Kalisha Buckhanon’s first novel, Upstate, won an American Library Association Alex Award and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Debut Fiction. Terry McMillan selected her to receive the first Terry McMillan Young Author Award in 2006. A recipient of a 2001 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship and an Andrew Mellon Fellow, Buckhanon frequently teaches writing and speaks throughout the country. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from New School University in New York City, and both a B.A. and a M.A. in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. She was born in 1977 in Kankakee, Illinois.

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John Buckler

John Buckler (Ph.D., Harvard University), late of the University of Illinois, authored Theban Hegemony, 371-362 B.C., Philip II and the Sacred War, and Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century B.C.. With Hans Beck, he most recently published Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century.

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Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Patricia B. Ebrey (Ph.D., Columbia University), Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, specializes in China. She has published numerous journal articles and The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, as well as numerous monographs. In 2010 she won the Shimada Prize for outstanding work of East Asian Art History for Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong.

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Paul Buhle

Paul Buhle is a senior lecturer in history at Brown University and the editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left, among other books. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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