Interpretations of American History, Volume 2: From Reconstruction: Patterns & Perspectives
Francis G. Couvares is the E. Dwight Salmon Professor of History and American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author ofThe Remaking of Pittsburgh:Class and Culture in an Industrializing City 1877-1919(1984) and editor ofMovie Censorship and American Culture, Second Edition(2006).Martha Saxton is an Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies and the Elizabeth Bruss Reader at Amherst College. She has written biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jayne Mansfield, as well asBeing Good: Women’s Moral Values In Early America(2003), and numerous essays on women in early America. Founding editors ofInterpretations of American HistoryGerald N. Grob and George Athan Billias are Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus at Rutgers University and Hyatt Professor of History Emeritus at Clark University, respectively.