American Passages: A History of the United States, Compact Edition, Volume I (Thomson Advantage Books)
Edward L. Ayers is Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he has recently been named Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is also Executive Director of the Center for Digital History, an institute at the University of Virginia dedicated to crafting and teaching history in new media. His digital project, "The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War," was ranked by the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA as one of the top forty education sites in the world and named the best Civil War site by Yahoo! Ayers has written and edited several books, one of which, THE PROMISE OF THE NEW SOUTH: LIFE AFTER RECONSTRUCTION (1992), was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Ayers has won numerous teaching awards. He is the author of Chapters 9?15.Lewis L. Gould is the Eugene C. Barker Centennial Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He was recognized for outstanding undergraduate teaching in large lecture sections of the American History survey and for excellent graduate teaching. Gould is a nationally recognized authority on First Ladies andthe presidency. His comments have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, and he has appeared on C-Span, The CBS Morning News, Nightline, the ABC Evening News, as wellas many syndicated radio shows. He also participated in the PBS program on Lyndon Johnson and the AandE biography of Lady Bird Johnson. He is the author of Chapters 16?24, 31, and 32.David M. Oshinsky has taught for nearly 30 years at Rutgers University, where he holds the Board of Governors Chair. Among his publications are A CONSPIRACY SO IMMENSE: THE WORLD OF JOE MCCARTHY (1983), which was voted one of the year's "best books" by the "New York Sunday Times Book Review," and won theHardeman Prize for the best work about the U.S. Congress; and "WORSE THAN SLAVERY": PARCHMAN FARM AND THE ORDEAL OF JIM CROW JUSTICE (1996) which won both the Robert Kennedy Book Award for the year's mostdistinguished contribution to the field of human rights, and the American Bar Association's Scribes Award for distinguished legal writing. Oshinsky is the author of Chapters 25?30.Jean R. Soderlund is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Lehigh University and Co-Director of the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her book, QUAKERS AND SLAVERY: A DIVIDED SPIRIT, won the Alfred E. Driscoll Publication Prize of the New Jersey Historical Commission.Soderlund has edited three volumes of the Papers of William Penn and co-authored FREEDOM BY DEGREES: EMANCIPATION IN PENNSYLVANIA AND ITS AFTERMATH. She has written articles and chapters on the history of women, African Americans, Native Americans, Quakers, and the development of abolition in the British NorthAmerican colonies and early United States. She is the author of Chapters 1?8.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.