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About Andrew EvansJulius RuffMerry E. Wiesner-HanksWilliam Bruce Wheeler

Andrew D. Evans (Chair Department of History State University of New York at New Paltz) received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2002. He is the author of ANTHROPOLOGY AT WAR: WORLD WAR I AND THE SCIENCE OF RACE IN GERMANY (Chicago 2010) and co-author of DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2015). Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Chair Department of History University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1979. She has published WORKING WOMEN IN RENAISSANCE GERMANY (Rutgers 1986) as well as numerous articles on women and the Reformation and urban social history. She is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (2012) DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2008) DISCOVERING THE MEDIEVAL PAST (2003) DISCOVERING THE ANCIENT PAST (2005) DISCOVERING THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD (2005) and BECOMING VISIBLE: WOMEN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY (1998). She is also the General Editor of the PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION series. William Bruce Wheeler received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1967. He is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (2012) DISCOVERING THE AMERICAN PAST (2012) and DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2008). He has also written books on Tennessee history and the Tellico Dam. Julius Ruff (Marquette University) received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina 1979. He is the author of Crime Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France (Croom Helm 1984) in addition to many articles and book reviews.