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Gary B. Nash

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Gary B. Nash received his B. A. from Princeton University in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1964. He earned the position of Director of the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught colonial and revolutionary American history since 1974. Nash has been the Director of the National Center for History in the Schools sinc 1994 and co-chaired the National History Standards Project from 1992-1996. His past positions include: Dean of Undergraduate and Intercollege Curricular Development, University of California, Los Angeles; President, Organization of American Historians; Dean, Council on Educational Development, University of California, Los Angeles; Assistant Professor, Depart...more Gary B. Nash received his B. A. from Princeton University in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1964. He earned the position of Director of the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught colonial and revolutionary American history since 1974. Nash has been the Director of the National Center for History in the Schools sinc 1994 and co-chaired the National History Standards Project from 1992-1996. His past positions include: Dean of Undergraduate and Intercollege Curricular Development, University of California, Los Angeles; President, Organization of American Historians; Dean, Council on Educational Development, University of California, Los Angeles; Assistant Professor, Department of History, Princeton University. He has received research grants from the University of California Institute of Humanities and American Philosophical Society and fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial and American Council of Learned Society. Nash was elected member of American Antiquarian Society, Society of American Historians, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as winning the University of California Distinguished Emeriti Award and the Defense of Academic Freedom Award, from the National Council for Social Studies. Nash is the Founding Member and has been on the Board of Trustees of the National Council for History Education since 1990 and was Vice-Chair in 1992. He was also President of the Organization of American Historians, from 1994-95, the Primary History Consultant for the Schlessinger Production series in United States History, from 1996-97, he was on the University of California Bicentennial Committee, from 1975-76 and was an Historical Consultant and Writer for "Lights of Liberty," sound and light tour, Philadelphia, PA, in 1999. Among the books Nash has authored are Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 (1968); Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Early America (1974, 1982); The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979); and Forging Freedom: The Black Urban Experience in Philadelphia, 1720-1840 (1988).
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Average rating: 3.74 · 369 ratings · 58 reviews · 114 distinct works

	The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America 3.94 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America 3.75 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1974 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Race and Revolution 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution 3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past by Gary B. Nash, Charlotte A. Crabtree, Ross E. Dunn 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull by Gary B. Nash, Graham Hodges, Graham Russell Gao Hodges 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Liberty Bell 2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:

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