William Graebner is Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. He is the author of several books and co-editor (with Leonard Richards) of The American Record: Images of the Nation's Past.
Leonard L. Richards,professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, took his degrees at the University of California, Berkeley and Davis. He has also taught at San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. HisGentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian Americawon the 1970 American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award.The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adamswas a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, andThe Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780—1860took the second-place 2001 Lincoln Prize. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. From the Hardcover edition.
Volume Two: 1: Reconstruction 2: The Gilded Age 3: The West 4: Cities and Immigrants, Cities and Migrants 5: Empire 6: Progressivism: The Age of Reform 7: From War to “Normalcy” 8: The Great Depression and the New Deal 9: World War II: Optimism and Anxiety 10: Cold War, Cold War at Home 11: The Eisenhower Consensus 12: Coming Apart: The 1960s 13: America Under Siege 14: Culture Wars 15: Closing the Century: More of the Same