Charlene Mires, Villanova University, charlene.mires@villanova.edu
Charlene Mires is Associate Professor of History at Villanova University, where she teaches the History of Philadelphia and other courses in U.S., urban, and public history. She is the author of Independence Hall in American Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), which received the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award, as well as articles in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Pennsylvania History, The Public Historian, and other journals. Her public history work includes projects with Independence and Valley Forge National Historical Parks, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, and the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia, and she serves on the Oversight Committee for the President’s House Commemoration. Previously, she worked as an editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer in Center City, Chester County, and Gloucester County, New Jersey. As a journalist, she was a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting awarded to the staff of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel in 1983 for coverage of the floods that ravaged that city in 1982.
Howard Gillette, Rutgers University-Camden, hfg@camden.rutgers.edu
Howard Gillette, Jr. is Professor of History and Director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers University in Camden. He is the author, most recently, of Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-industrial City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), the winner of best book awards from the Urban History Association and the New Jersey Historical Commission. He is a frequent contributor to news as well as scholarly publications and editor of three books, including The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800-1975 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980). He is a member of the editorial board of New Jersey History and recently completed a term on the editorial board of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. He has consulted for a number of area cultural institutions, including the Atwater Kent Museum, Elfreth’s Alley, the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and the New Jersey Historical Society.
Randall Miller, St. Joseph’s University, miller@sju.edu
Randall M. Miller is the William Dirk Warren `50 Sesquicentennial Chair & Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books on subjects as varied as urban affairs, religion, politics, slavery and race, the American South, the Civil War and Reconstruction, mass media, diaries, and immigrants and ethnicity. He co-edited Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth (Penn State Press, 2002), and he is the former editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. He has been a consultant for numerous exhibits, public programs, and institutional development projects for historical and cultural organizations, has appeared in documentaries that have aired nationally and regionally, and has been a frequent commentator on politics, public policy, and American culture for national and area radio, television, and newspaper outlets.
Consulting Editor, Gary Nash, UCLA, gnash@ucla.edu
Born in Philadelphia and a graduate of Lower Merion High School and Princeton University (B.A., 1955; Ph.D, 1964), Gary B. Nash abandoned the East Coast in 1966 for California, where he has taught in UCLA’s Department of History ever since. He has published many books and articles on Philadelphia and Pennsylvania history, including Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840 (Harvard University Press, 1988) and First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (UPenn Press, 2002) His The Liberty Bell: An American Icon will be published late this year by Yale University Press. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of American Historians, and the American Antiquarian Society. He served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1994-1995 and is the Director of the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA.
Consulting Editor, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Haverford College, elapsans@haverford.edu
Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner is Professor of History and Curator of the Quaker Collection at Haverford College, near Philadelphia. She has held this position since 1990. She received her B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania, and her doctorate in American Civilization from the same institution. Her research interests include Quaker history, African American history and especially the intersection between the two, as well as Pennsylvania history, the American West, and material culture. Her recent publications include Quaker Aesthetics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, with Anne Verplanck); Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the American Colonization Movement (Penn State University Press, 2005, with Margaret Hope Bacon. Pb 2007), and contributed essays to Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (Yale University Press, 2006) and Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth (Penn State University Press, 2003). With Gary Nash and Clayborne Carson, Lapsansky-Werner has also authored a college text on African American history. She regularly consults to museums and to pre-collegiate curriculum developers on enlivening public history and classroom history presentations. She is currently at work on three projects: a history of a Bryn Mawr Quaker family, a study of a mid-twentieth-century Philadelphia intentional community, and – with Dee Andrews of California State, East Bay – a re-evaluation of eighteenth-century British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson.
Associate Editors
Carolyn Adams, Temple University
Steven Conn, Ohio State University
Matthew Countryman, University of Michigan
Richard Dilworth, Drexel University
Tamara Gaskell, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Judith Giesberg, Villanova University
Susan Klepp, Temple University
Cheryl Leibold, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology
Daniel Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Philip Scranton, Rutgers University-Camden
George Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania
Rebecca Yamin, John Milner Associates
Editorial and Technical Advisers
Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania
Martha Brogan, University of Pennsylvania
Charles Hardy, West Chester University
Amy Hillier, University of Pennsylvania
Margaret Jerrido, Independent Archival Consultant