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Barbara B. Diefendorf

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

Frederick Douglass

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W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois

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Laurent Dubois

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

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

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

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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Jonathan Earle

Jonathan Earle

Jonathan Earle (PhD, Princeton University) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas. In 2005, the History News Network named Earle a Top Young Historian . His book Jacksonian Anti-Slavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824–1854 won the James A. Broussard Best First Book Award from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. He is currently working on a history of the 1860 Presidential election for Oxford University Press.  Earle has also authored many scholarly articles and book chapters on abolitionism, the history of the early republic, and John Brown. He has received fellowships from the NEH and the American Council of Learned Societies.

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Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is a Professor of History at Vassar College. Her research interests focus on the post-Civil War era and include electoral politics, environmental history, and the history of women and gender roles. She is the author of Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (1997) and New Spirits: Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905 (Second Edition, 2010). She is currently working on a biography of women's rights advocate and People's Party orator Mary E. Lease.

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Joseph J. Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. He has written several books including The New England Mind in Transition (1973); with Robert Moore, School for Soldiers: West Point and the Profession of Arms (1974); After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture (1981); and Passsionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (1994). In 1997, Ellis's American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won the National Book Award for nonfiction.

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Frederick Engels

Frederick Engels

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Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano contributed to The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano from Palgrave Macmillan.

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Richard W. Etulain

Richard W. Etulain

Richard W. Etulain was professor of history and director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico from 1979 to 2001. He is now a full-time researcher and writer residing in Portland, Oregon, specializing in the history and literature of the American West. He has written or edited forty books, including The American West: A Twentieth-Century History (1989, coauthored with Michael P. Malone); Re-Imagining the Modern American West (1996); Researching Western History (1997, coedited with Gerald D. Nash); Telling Western Stories (1999); The Hollywood West (2001, coedited with Glenda Riley); New Mexican Lives: A Biographical History (editor, 2002); and Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West (2006), and editor of Lincoln Looks West (editor, 2010). He is also editor of Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? ( Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999) and Cesar Chavez: A Brief Biography with Documents (2002). He has served as president of both the Western Literature and Western History associations.

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Alice Fahs

Alice Fahs

Alice Fahs is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Her book The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861–1865 (2001) was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2002 Lincoln Prize. She has also published articles on Civil War history, gender history, popular culture, and popular literature.

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Jeffrey Brown Ferguson

Jeffrey Brown Ferguson

Jeffrey B. Ferguson (PhD, Harvard University) is Assistant Professor of Black Studies and American Studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he teaches a course in the Harlem Renaissance. He is the author of The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler, Satire, and the Harlem Renaissance (2005). His 1998 dissertation on the African American journalist George S. Schuyler was awarded the Helen Choate Bell Prize. He has been a fellow at the W. E B. Du Bois Institute.

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