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M
ARK C. CARNESreceived his undergraduate
degree from Harvard and his PhD in history
from Columbia University. He has chaired both the
history and American studies departments at Barnard
College, Columbia University, where he serves as the
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History. Carnes and
Garraty were General Editors of the 26-volume
American National Biography, for which they were
awarded the Waldo Leland Prize of the American
Historical Association. Carnes has published numer-
ous books on American social and cultural history,
including Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian
America(1989),Past Imperfect: History According to
the Movies (1995), Novel History: Historians and
Novelists Confront America’s Past (2001), and
Invisible Giants: 50 Americans That Shaped the
Nation but Missed the History Books(2002). Carnes
also pioneered the Reacting to the Pastpedagogy,
winner of the Theodore Hesburgh Award, sponsored
by TIAA-CREF, as the outstanding pedagogical
innovation in the nation (2004). In Reacting to the
Past, college students play elaborate games, set in the
past, their roles informed by classic texts. (For more
on Reacting, see: http://www.barnard.edu/reacting.)) In
2005 the American Historical Association named
Carnes the recipient of the William Gilbert Prize for
the best article on teaching history.
The late JOHN A. GARRATY ̧ formerly
Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at
Columbia University, received his PhD from
Columbia University and an LHD from Michigan
State University. He authored and edited scores of
books, among them biographies of Silas Wright,
Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, George W.
Perkins, and Theodore Roosevelt. Garraty’s The New
Commonwealth, included in the new American
Nation series, challenged earlier dismissals of what
was commonly known as “the Gilded Age.” His
The Great Depression argued that political leaders
throughout the world happened upon “solutions”
much like those proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Garraty was co-General Editor with Mark Carnes of
theAmerican National Biography.■Mark C. Carnes