Robert Blackey is professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino, and earned his Ph.D. at New York University. He has served the Advanced Placement Program for more than 30 years, including as Chief Reader (1975-80) and as member and chair of the Test Development Committee in European History (1985-89); he has also participated in 22 annual Readings. He has published articles, pamphlets, and books on British history, the history of revolutions, and history education. He served as vice president of the American Historical Association for the teaching division (1991-95), editor of the teaching column in the AHA's newsletter, Perspectives (1982-96/97), and is currently a member of the National Academic Council of The College Board. He was the recipient of the AHA's 2001 Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award.
Juan José Cruz is associate professor of American studies at the University of La Laguna, Spain, where he teaches American history. He received his Ph.D. from La Laguna in 1986. He has recently published Desnudos, Muertos y Ofendidos (La Laguna, 2000), on Vietnam War narratives as historiography, and "'Working Americans in and around The Precinct:' Hill Street Blues' Dubious Response to Reaganism," in Oasis (Copenhagen, January 2002). He is currently developing a project on Reaganism in American fiction and films.
Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. A UCLA Ph.D. (1961), he is a past president of both the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. He has written widely about Asian Americans and immigration. Among his most recent books are Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924, (Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1997; Debating American Immigration, (with Otis Graham), (Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), and American Immigration: A Student Companion, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). This fall a second edition of his Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, (1990), will be published by HarperCollins.
Allen Yarema is assistant professor of history at Abilene Christian University and the advisor for history and social studies education majors. He completed his Ed.D. with a minor in history at Texas A&M University, Commerce, and specializes in history education. He teaches American history survey, regional and cultural geography, and "History for Teachers," a course designed for students seeking Texas Teacher certification.
Melinda S. Zook is associate professor of history at Purdue University and director of undergraduate studies in history. She attained her Ph.D in history from Georgetown University in 1993. She has published a book on politics and ideology in seventeenth-century England, Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England (Penn State Press, 1999) as well as several articles on various aspects of the English Restoration.