Making America: A History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877, Fourth Edition
Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College and the graduate center of City University of New York, earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her scholarly works include Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist (1974) and First Generations: Women in Colonial America (1996). Her most recent work is A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (2002). She has appeared on the PBS series Liberty! The American Revolution,and the TLC series The American Revolution. Active in historical circles, she has served on the Program Committees of both the Society for the History of the Early American Republic and the Organization of American Historians.Christopher L. Miller, associate professor of history at the University of Texas, Pan America, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous scholarly publications, and he is the author of Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau (1985). He has been actively involved in several programs to improve the teaching of history, including those funded by the Meadows Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and other agencies.Robert W. Cherny, professor of history at San Francisco State University, received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Best known for his work on politics in the Progressive Era and Gilded Age, he is most recently the author of American Politics in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1997). He is also the lead author of Competing Visions: A History of California (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). Particularly active in H-Net, an online scholarly community, he edits the discussion lists for Gilded and Progressive Era historians and historians of California.James L. Gormly is professor of history at Washington and Jefferson College where he chairs the department. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Collapse of the Grand Alliance (1970) and From Potsdam to the Cold War (1979).