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CONTRIBUTORS
January 2009
Thomas Bender earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, and he has been on the faculty of New York University since 1974, where he is now University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History. For the past several years, he has also directed a Gilder-Lehrman Summer Seminar for Teachers at NYU. He is the author of several books, most recently The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (2002); A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History (2006); and American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005: Documenting the National Discourse (2008), co-editor. As Secretary of the AHA committee on doctoral education, he was the principal author of The Education of Historians for the Twenty-First Century (2004).
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Marjorie Bingham received her B.A. from Grinnell College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She taught history at St. Louis Park High School and co-authored with Susan Gross a series of books on Women in World Culture. After early retirement, Bingham was an adjunct professor in the Graduate School at Hamline University. Her most recent publication is An Age of Empires, 1200–1750 from Oxford University Press. She served on the Bradley Commission for History in the Schools, several other national curriculum committees, and was the founding vice-Chair of the National Council for History Education.
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Ross E. Dunn was Coordinating Editor of the National Standards for World History, and he continues to serve as Director of World History Projects for the National Center for History in the Schools.
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Alli Jason-Fives has taught American government and history at Beverly Hills High School since 1980. As a Teacher-Associate with the National Center for Teaching History in the Schools, she wrote curriculum units entitled "The Displacement of the American Indian: 1870–1890" and "Women in the Progressive Era." Jason-Fives is currently working with Gary Nash creating curriculum lessons for the Gene Autry Museum exhibit "Home Lands: How Women Helped Shape The American West."
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Ronald Mellor received his doctorate in Classics at Princeton University in 1968. He is now Professor of Greek and Roman History at UCLA, and served as Chair of the History Department from 1992 to 1997. Mellor's research has centered on ancient religion and Roman historiography. Recent books include: Tacitus (1993); The Roman Historians (1999); and Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire (2005). Mellor is the co-general editor (with Amanda Podany) of The World in Ancient Times– a series of nine volumes on ancient world history for young readers published by the Oxford University Press. Mellor has been co-Director of the UCLA History-Geography Project since 1992, and was for several years the statewide Principal Investigator of the California History-Social Science Project.
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Gary B. Nash completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1964, and taught briefly at Princeton before coming to UCLA, where he has been a professor in the Department of History for the last 43 years. For the last several decades, he has been Associate Director (1986–1994) and then Director (1994 to the present) of the National Center for History in the Schools. Nash served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1994–1995 and is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Society of American Historians. His latest books, among several dozen, are The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005); Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull; A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation (2007); and The Liberty Bell: An American Icon (forthcoming).
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Donald Schwartz is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Long Beach, where he has taught history since 1987. He recently co-directed the Gilder-Lehrman Institute program on the subject of slavery in Shelbyville, Kentucky, and is a speaker for the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program for 2008–2009.
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Gloria Sesso has served for the last eight years as Director of Social Studies for the Patchogue-Medford School District in Suffolk County, Long Island. Formerly, she was a teacher and Supervisor of Social Studies for the Half Hollow Hills School District for seventeen years. Sesso earned her Master's Degree from Columbia University in History and is currently writing her Ph.D. dissertation at Stony Brook University. Along with Chris Welles Feder, Sesso authored The Long Island Story; The New York City Story: Then and Now; and The New York State Story. Sesso currently serves as the co-President of the Long Island Council for the Social Studies (LICSS) and on the New York State Supervisor's Association Executive Board.
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Linda Symcox (Ph.D., UCLA) is a Professor of Teacher Education at California State University, Long Beach; Director of the CSULB Graduate Program in Elementary Curriculum and Instruction; and co-Director of the CSULB Urban Teaching Academy. Among her publications are Whose History? The Struggle for National Standards in American Classrooms (Teachers College Press, 2002); National History Standards: The Problem of the Canon and the Future of Teaching History (Information Age Publishing, forthcoming); and Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education: Transformative Standards (Routledge, forthcoming).
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David Vigilante is Associate Director of the National Center for History in the Schools. He taught high school history in Alabama and middle and high school history and government in San Diego, California for 30 years. He was a member of the curriculum task force that developed the National Standards for U.S. and World History. He currently works as a curriculum consultant on special projects and reviews middle school monographs for historical accuracy.
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