The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People

About Joseph KettKaren HalttunenNancy WolochNeal SalisburyPaul Boyer

Paul S. Boyer Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Madison earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. An editor of NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN 1607-1950 (1971) he also co-authored SALEM POSSESSED: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF WITCHCRAFT (1974) for which with Stephen Nissenbaum he received the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association. His other works include URBAN MASSES AND MORAL ORDER IN AMERICA 1820-1920 (1978) BY THE BOMBS EARLY LIGHT: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND CULTURE AT THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE (1985) WHEN TIME SHALL BE NO MORE: PROPHECY BELIEF IN MODERN AMERICAN CULTURE (1992) and PROMISES TO KEEP: THE UNITED STATES SINCE WORLD WAR II (3e 2003). He is also editor-in-chief of the OXFORD COMPANION TO UNITED STATES HISTORY (2001). His articles and essays have appeared in the American Quarterly New Republic and other journals. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles; Northwestern University; and the College of William and Mary. Joseph F. Kett James Madison Professor of History at the University of Virginia received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His works include THE FORMATION OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL PROFESSION: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS 1780-1860 (1968) RITES OF PASSAGE: ADOLESCENCE IN AMERICA 1790-PRESENT (1977) THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES: FROM SELF-IMPROVEMENT TO ADULT EDUCATION IN AMERICA 1750-1990 (1994) and THE NEW DICTIONARY OF CULTURAL LITERACY (2002) of which he is co-author. A former History Department chair at Virginia he also has participated on the Panel on Youth of the Presidents Science Advisory Committee has served on the Board of Editors of the History of Education Quarterly and is a past member of the Council of the American Studies Association. Nancy Woloch received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. She is the author of WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (fifth edition 2011) editor of EARLY AMERICAN WOMEN: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY 1600-1900 (second edition 2002) and coauthor with Walter LaFeber and Richard Polenberg of THE AMERICAN CENTURY: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE 1890S (seventh edition 2013). She is also the author of MULLER V. OREGON: A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS (1996). She teaches American History and American Studies at Barnard College Columbia University. Karen Halttunen professor of history at the University of Southern California earned her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her works include CONFIDENCE MEN AND PAINTED WOMEN: A STUDY OF MIDDLE-CLASS CULTURE IN AMERICA 1830-1870 (1982) and MURDER MOST FOUL: THE KILLER AND THE AMERICAN GOTHIC IMAGINATION (1998). She edited THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY (2008) and co-edited with Lewis Perry MORAL PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN LIFE: NEW ESSAYS ON CULTURAL HISTORY (1998). As president of the American Studies Association and as vice-president of the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association she has actively promoted K-16 collaboration in teaching history. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim and Mellon Foundations the National Endowment for the Humanities the Huntington Library and the National Humanities Center and has been principal investigator on several Teaching American History grants from the Department of Education. Neal Salisbury Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences (History) at Smith College received his Ph.D. from the University of California Los Angeles. He is the author of MANITOU AND PROVIDENCE: INDIANS EUROPEANS AND THE MAKING OF NEW ENGLAND 1500-1643 (1982) editor of THE SOVEREIGNTY AND GOODNESS OF GOD by Mary Rowlandson (1997) and co-editor with Philip J. Deloria of THE COMPANION TO AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY (2002). With R. David Edmunds and Frederick E. Hoxie he has written THE PEOPLE: A HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICA (2007). He has contributed numerous articles to journals and edited collections and co-edits a book series CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY. He is active in the fields of colonial and Native American history and has served as president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and on the Council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.