Gary B. Nash
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Gary B. Nash, Professor of History at UCLA, has influenced history teaching more than any other figure of his generation. He led the design of the 1986 California History/Social Science Framework, the 1994 National History Standards, and the subsequent 1996 revised edition. He has served as Director of the National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA (NCHS) since 1994. Teachers and university faculty will gather to honor him for his work with teachers in California and all around the country.
Selected Publications
Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 (1968)
Class and Society in Early America (1970)
The Great Fear: Race in The Mind of America, co-editor (1970)
Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America, also published in Spanish. (1974)
The Private Side of American History: Readings in Everyday Life (1975)
The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979)
Struggle and Survival in Colonial America, co-editor (1981) -- also published in Spanish (1987)
Race, Class and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society (1986)
The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, coauthor (1986)
Retracing the Past: Readings in the History of the American People, (2 vols), coauthor (1986)
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 (1988)
Race and Revolution: The Inaugural Merrill Jensen Lectures (1990)
Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in Pennsylvania, 1690--1840, coauthor (1991)
American Odyssey: The United States in the Twentieth Century (1991)
Lessons From History: Essential Understandings and Historical Perspectives Students Should Acquire, co-editor (1992)
History on Trial: National Identity, Culture Wars, and the Teaching of the Past, coauthor (1997)
Empire, Society, and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn, co-editor (1997)
Forbidden Love: The Secret History of Mixed-Race America (1999)
First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2001)
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (New York: Viking, 2005; London: Jonathan Cape, 2006)
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Editor, Atlas of American History (New York: Facts-on-File, forthcoming)
Other Publications:
Prize for Daughters of Colonial Wars for best article in William and Mary Quarterly for 1976 ("Poverty and Poor Relief in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia")
Chapter contributions to more than thirty books.
Forty-five articles and over eighty book reviews, op-ed essays, and comments.
