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T. H. Breen

T. H. Breen is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. The author of several works of history, Breen has also written for The New York Times Magazine and the London Review of Books. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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Elise Broach

Elise Broach is the New York Times bestselling author of Masterpiece, Shakespeare’s Secret and Desert Crossing, Missing on Superstition Mountain, the first book in the Superstition Mountain Trilogy, as well as several picture books. Her books have been selected as ALA notable books, Junior Library Guild selections, a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book, a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenage, an IRA Teacher’s Choice, an E.B. White Read Aloud Award, and nominated for an Edgar Award, among other distinctions. Ms. Broach holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Yale University. She was born in Georgia and lives in the woods of rural Connecticut, walking distance from three farms, a library, a post office and two country stores.

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Geoffrey Brock

Geoffrey Brock is the author of Weighing Light and the translator of numerous volumes from the Italian, including Cesare Pavese's Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Public Library's Cullman Center. He teaches in the MFA Program in creative writing and translation at the University of Arkansas.

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David Brody

David Brody is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Steelworkers in America; Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the 20th Century Struggle; and In Labor’s Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker. His current research is on labor law and workplace regimes during the Great Depression.

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Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte was the author of Wuthering Heights.

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Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in 1816. She published Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell and wrote three other novels, Shirley, Villette and The Professor (published posthumously).

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Timothy Brook

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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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