Gary B. Nash

He concentrated on the Revolutionary period, slavery and race, as well as the formation of political communities in Philadelphia and other cities.After graduating from Lower Merion High School, he attended Princeton University, where he earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees (BA 1955, PhD 1964).He became the Director of NCHS in 1994 and oversaw the revision of the National History Standards published in 1996.Nash served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1994–95 and was on the OAH Executive Board from 1988 to 1991, and 1992 to 1998.[Teachers] know you’re not going to have a very interesting, productive and useful history class if you exclude anything which would make any child uncomfortable or that would lead to any division of opinion.
historianMerionPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPrinceton UniversityU.S. NavyJohn W. WeeksUniversity of California, Los AngelesEdmund MorganNational Center for History in the SchoolsOrganization of American HistoriansAmerican Academy of Arts and SciencesAmerican Antiquarian SocietyAmerican Philosophical SocietyNational Council for History EducationHistorical Society of PennsylvaniaGraham Russell Gao Hodges