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Gerald A. Danzer

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William F. Deverell

William F. Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.  He is the author of Whitewashed Adobe: Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past, and coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to Los Angeles and of The Blackwell Companion to California History.  He has been a fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute.

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Barbara B. Diefendorf

Barbara B. Diefendorf (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at Boston University. Her book From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris (2004) won the American Historical Association’s J. Russell Major Prize for the best book in French History. She is also the author of Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris (1991), which was awarded the New England Historical Association and National Huguenot Association Book Prizes, and Paris City Councillors: The Politics of Patrimony (1983). She has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Camargo Foundation.

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Frederick Douglass

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W. E. B. Du Bois

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Laurent Dubois

Laurent Dubois (PhD. University of Michigan) is associate professor of history at Michigan State University. His book A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804 (2004) won the American Historical Association Prize in Atlantic History and the John Edwin Fagg Award. He is also the author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004), which was a Christian Science Monitor Noteworthy Book of 2004 and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2004, and Les esclaves de la République: l'histoire oubliée de la première emancipation, 1787–1794 (1998).

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Ellen Carol DuBois

Ellen Carol DuBois is Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. DuBois is the author of Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1969; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Women’s Suffrage (winner of the 1998 Joan Kelly Price Award from the American Historical Association); and Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights.

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Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. Dumenil has written The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880-1930, and she is editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History.

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Ross E. Dunn

Ross E. Dunn is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He has served as president of the World History Association and is Director of World History Projects at the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles. He currently directs the center’s World History for Us All project, a Web-based model curriculum for world history in middle and high schools. He has written books and articles on North African, Islamic, and world history, including The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century (Second Edition, 2004) and is senior author of Links Across Time and Place, a world history textbook for high school students. As one of the historians who outlined teaching goals for world history in high schools, Dunn was at the center of the culture wars debate over the National Standards for World History (1994). He and coauthors Gary B. Nash and Charlotte Crabtree wrote about their experiences with the standards in History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (1997). In 2010 he coauthored World History: The Big Eras with Edmund Burke III and David Christian. This slim volume presents a sweeping survey of the human past focusing on large-scale patterns of change.

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