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Georgiy Chernyavskiy

Georgiy Chernyavskiy (PhD, Kharkov University, Ukraine) is professor emeritus of history at the Ukrainian Academy of Culture in Kharkov and is now an independent researcher living in Baltimore. The author of many books on Bulgarian and Russian history, his most recent, published in Russian, are Leon Trotsky (2010); Experience of Misfortune and Surviving: The Fate of Bulgarian Jews during World War Two (2007, with Larisa Dubova); Sagas of the Truth and Lies: Political Dramas of the Twentieth Century (2004); and The Shadow of the Devil’s Wing: Bolshevism and National Socialism–A Comparative Historical Analysis (2003). With his colleagues, Chernyavskiy received the Lomonosov Prize for the textbook Historiography of the History of Southern and Western Slavs (1967). He received also the Great Gold Medal of Sofia University (Bulgaria) for his studies in Bulgarian modern history.

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Charles W. Chesnutt

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Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark, professor of history at the University of Connecticut, received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians for The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 (1990). His other publications include The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association (1995) and Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War (2006), together with articles on rural history and the social roots of American economic development. He has also been the corecipient of the Cadbury Schweppes Prize for innovative teaching in the humanities.

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Charles Clark

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Patricia Cline Cohen

Patricia Cline Cohen (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005–2006. She has written A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America and The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, and she has coauthored The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York.

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William J. Connell

William J. Connell, professor of history, holds the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University, where he was founding director of the Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute. He has also taught at Reed College and Rutgers University. A specialist in late medieval and early modern European history, his books include La città dei crucci: fazioni e clientele in uno stato repubblicano del ‘400 (editor); Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence (editor); Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power (coeditor); Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence (coauthor); and Anti-Italianism: Essays on a Prejudice (coeditor). He has been a Fulbright Scholar, an I Tatti Fellow, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the History of Ideas, Storia e politica, and the Revista de stiinte politice si relatii internationale of the Romanian Academy. In 2009 he was elected Corresponding Fellow of the Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Toscana.

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Joseph Conrad

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Edward Countryman

Edward Countryman is University Distinguished Professor in the Clements Department of History at Southern Methodist University. He has also taught at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge, the University of Canterbury, and Yale University. He has published widely on the American Revolution, winning a Bancroft Prize for his book A People in Revolution (1981). Together with Evonne von Heussen-Countryman, he has also published Shane in the British Film Institute Film Classics series. As of late 2010 he is working on two book projects. One is a short volume on African Americans and the era of American independence. The other is a longer study of how Native Americans became familiar with the world and the ideas of invading Europeans during the colonial era.

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Francis G. Couvares

Francis G. Couvares is the E. Dwight Salmon Professor of History and American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of The Remaking of Pittsburgh: Class and Culture in an Industrializing City 1877-1919 (1984) and editor of Movie Censorship and American Culture, Second Edition (2006).

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Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871–June 5, 1900) was the author of The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.

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Clare Haru Crowston

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, where she is currently associate professor of history. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women's History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.

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Noble E. Cunningham Jr.

Noble E. Cunningham Jr. is Curators' Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia. With research and writing focused on the early national period of American history, his writings include In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1987); The Process of Government under Jefferson (1976); The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye (1981); Popular Images of the Presidency from Washington to Lincoln (1991); and The Presidency of James Monroe (1996). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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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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