America, past and present

Robert A. Divine is the George W. Littlefield Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught for more than forty years.

Award-winning historian T.H. Breen has written extensively on the American Revolution. Recent works include The Marketplace of Revolution and American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People. He is currently the William Smith Mason Professor of American History Emeritus at Northwestern University and the James Marsh show more Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. show less

Historian George M. Fredrickson was born in Bristol, Connecticut on July 16, 1934. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1956 and then studied in Norway on a Fulbright scholarship. After serving in the Navy for three years, he earned a doctorate from Harvard University in 1964. He taught at numerous universities including Harvard show more University, Northwestern University and Stanford University. He retired from teaching in 2002. During his career, he wrote eight books and edited four more. His book White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Some of his other works include The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crises of the Union, Racism: A Short History and Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race. He died from heart failure on February 25, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) show less