Exploring American Histories, Volume 2: A Brief Survey with Sources
Nancy A. Hewitt (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of History and of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her publications includeSouthern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s,for which she received the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians,Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872,and the edited volumeNo Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism.She is currently working on a biography of the nineteenth-century radical activist Amy Post and a book that recasts the U.S. woman suffrage movement.Steven F. Lawson (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. His research interests include U.S. politics since 1945 and the history of the civil rights movement, with a particular focus on black politics and the interplay between civil rights and political culture in the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of many works includingRunning for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941, Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969,andIn Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965-1982.