Gary B. Nash

Gary B. Nash is an American historian whose whose works have influenced history teaching in the United States. 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. He is a Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Works

In addition to many books he has authored, co-authored, or co-edited, Nash has made chapter contributions to more than thirty books, has published forty-five articles and over eighty book reviews, op-ed essays, and comments. His article "Poverty and Poor Relief in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia" ("William and Mary Quarterly", Jan. 1976) won the Daughters of Colonial Wars' prize for the best article in that publication for 1976.

As author

*"Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726" (1968)
*"Class and Society in Early America" (1970)
*"Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America" (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)
*"Race, Class and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society" (1986)
*"Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840" (1988)
*"Race and Revolution: The Inaugural Merrill Jensen Lectures" (1990)
*"American Odyssey: The United States in the Twentieth Century" (1991)
*"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" (2005)
*"The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution" (2006)

As co-author

*"The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society" (1986)
*"Retracing the Past: Readings in the History of the American People" (1986) (2 volumes)
*"Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in Pennsylvania, 1690-1840" (1991)
*"History on Trial: National Identity, Culture Wars, and the Teaching of the Past" (1997)
*"Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and A Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the new Nation" (2008)

As co-editor

*"The Great Fear: Race in The Mind of America" (1970)
*"Struggle and Survival in Colonial America" (1981)
*"Lessons From History: Essential Understandings and Historical Perspectives Students Should Acquire" (1992)
*"Empire, Society, and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn" (1997)

External links

* [http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/nash/ Faculty homepage] at UCLA