For the Record: A Documentary History of America: From First Contact through Reconstruction (Fifth Edition)  (Vol. 1)
David E. Shi (PhD University of Virginia) is president and professor of history and at Furman University in Greeneville, South Carolina.  He is the author of several books focusing on American cultural history, including the award-winning The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture and Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850–1920.Holly A. Mayer is an associate professor of history at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her primary field is Early America, and she is the author of Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution.