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Biographies
Larry Tye runs the new Health Coverage Fellowship, which is designed to help the media do a better job covering critical health care issues. Each year it provides nine days of intensive training - along with 11 months of ongoing tutelage - to 10 medical journalists from newspapers, radio stations and TV outlets. The program is sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts, with help from the Maine Health Access Foundation, Connecticut Health Foundation, Jane’s Trust, New Hampshire’s Endowment for Health, Vermont Community Foundation, Ottauquechee Health Foundation in Vermont, and other philanthropies. For its first two years, eligibility was limited to journalists from newspapers, radio stations and TV outlets in Massachusetts; in 2004 the fellowship expanded to include reporters and editors from New Hampshire and Maine, in 2005 it added Vermont and Connecticut, and next spring it will include all six New England states along with one national reporter.
From 1986 to 2001, Tye was a reporter at the Boston Globe, where his primary beat was medicine. He also served as the Globe's environmental reporter, roving national writer, investigative reporter, and sports writer. He wrote series on how 30 years of socialism devastated Eastern Europe's environment, the erosion of personal privacy in today's high-tech society, why Pentecostalism is the world's fastest-growing religion, and the mixed legacy of California's experiment with market-driven medicine.
Tye has won a series of national reporting awards, including the Edward J. Meeman environmental prize, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, and the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Achievement Award. He also won awards from the Associated Press, AP Sports Editors, Sigma Delta Chi, the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Tye's first book, The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations, was published in 1998 by Crown. After four hardcover printings, the paperback was issued by Henry Holt in 2001. Spin has been reviewed in dozens of newspapers across America, from the New York Times (twice) to the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. It was the subject of reports on CNN, CSPAN's "Book Notes," two shows on National Public Radio, and a multi-part BBC series on Bernays and his uncle, Sigmund Freud.
His second book, Home Lands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora, was published by Holt in 2001. It looks at the renewal underway across the Jewish world, from Boston to Buenos Aires, Dusseldorf to Dnepropetrovsk deep in the Ukraine. In each community children are leading parents and grandparents back to their culture and faith, and in each Jews feel confident living in diverse societies while still embracing a core of beliefs and practices that define them as Jews.
Tye, who lives in Cambridge, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993-94.
He came to the Globe from the LouisvilleCourier-Journal, a paper that - until its sale 18 years ago by the Bingham family - was a national leader in opposing strip mining and pushing for pollution controls. Tye was the Courier-Journal's environmental writer. His projects in Louisville included an award-winning 60-page magazine, called " America's Shame," which analyzed the Reagan administration's record in battling pollution. Another 60-pager looked at newly-uncovered indoor pollutants and told readers how to get rid of them.
Tye's first brush with journalism came in 1980 and was "accidental": He wanted to see the South before heading back to his native New England, and a newspaper seemed like a good way to do that. He ended up at the Anniston Star, a small, progressive paper in the heart of Alabama that George Wallace dubbed "The Red Star.'" His beats included business and government, his stories ranged from a look back at the Freedom Riders to a look ahead at Alabama's dim economic prospects, and his stay in Anniston lasted two years rather than the six months he had planned.
Tye graduated from Brown University in 1977 with an independent concentration entitled, "Technology and Society, Defining a New Balance."
After college, Tye went to work for the Union of Concerned Scientists in its new Washington office, where he authored reports on nuclear power plant safety that inspired an NBC documentary and a report on "60 Minutes." Two years later he took a job in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Washington office, writing and lobbying on energy, environmental and consumer issues, and reporting to Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III.
Tye’s newest book, Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class, was released in 2004 by Henry Holt. It explores the 100-year history of the black men who worked on George Pullman’s railroad sleeping cars, looking at how they launched the first successful black trade union, helped kick-start the Civil Rights movement, and gave birth to today's African-American middle class.
Tye is now collaborating with Kitty Dukakis on a book on electro-convulsive therapy. It is half her first-person experience with the treatment, half his look at its history, science and medicine, and is due out next fall from Avery/Penguin.
Frank J. Williams is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island and is one of the country's most renowned experts on Abraham Lincoln. He is the author or editor of over thirteen books, he has contributed chapters to several others, and has lectured on the subject throughout the country – including every Hildene symposium. At the same time, he has amassed an unsurpassed private library and archive that ranks among the nation's largest and finest Lincoln collections. In 2000, the Chief Justice was appointed to the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission created by Congress to plan events to commemorate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln in 2009. Since 1996, Chief Justice Williams has served as founding Chairman of The Lincoln Forum, a national assembly of Lincoln and Civil War devotees. For 9 years, he served as President of the Abraham Lincoln Association and, for 14 years, as President of The Lincoln Group of Boston. He is currently at work on an annotated bibliography of all the Lincoln titles published since 1865. His book of essays, Judging Lincoln, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2002. He, with Harold Holzer and Edna Greene Medford, has written The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views, Social, Legal and Pictorial just published by Louisiana State University Press. He also serves as Literary Editor of the Lincoln Herald where his Lincolniana appears.
Harold Holzer is the co-chairman of the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and the author, co-author, or editor of 30 books on Lincoln and the Civil War era. Among his award-winning works are The Lincoln Image, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Lincoln as I Knew Him, Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art, The Lincoln Family Album, and with Governor Mario Cuomo, Lincoln on Democracy. His recent book Lincoln at Cooper Union won a 2005 Lincoln Prize, among many other awards, and his latest works include Lincoln in the Times, which he edited with David Donald, Lincoln Revisited, and Lincoln and Freedom. His next books will be Lincoln: President-Elect, due from Simon & Schuster in fall 2008; and Lincoln in American Memory, a Library of America collection featuring 150 years of great writers on the subject of Abraham Lincoln, scheduled for publication in February 2009. Holzer has also written more than 300 articles over the past 35 years in both scholarly and popular publications, and contributed chapters to 23 additional books. He has won awards from the Illinois State Historical Society, the Civil War Round Tables of New York and Chicago, and the Lincoln Groups of New York and the District of Columbia. In addition to his writing, Holzer lectures throughout the country. His program “Lincoln Seen and Heard?” with actor Sam Waterston has been nationally broadcast and staged from such venues as the White House, the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library, the Clinton Presidential Library, and the Library of Congress. He also appears frequently on C-SPAN, PBS, the History Channel, and other television networks. He is currently filming a segment for the forthcoming PBS documentary Looking for Lincoln, and will be a regular on-air guest during the two-year C-SPAN observances of Lincoln’s 200th birthday. He has also served as guest curator for a number of Lincoln art exhibitions, including several shows at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne. And will be guest historian for the upcoming show “Lincoln and New York” at the New-York Historical Society. A former journalist, and political and government press secretary, Harold Holzer has served as an executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1992, currently as senior vice president for external affairs. He and his wife, Edith, who live in Rye, New York, have two grown daughters and a grandson.
Mark A. Stoler is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Vermont, where he taught from 1970-2007. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York in 1966, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1967 and 1971. He is the author of The Politics of the Second Front: American Military Planning and Diplomacy in Coalition Warfare, 1941-1943 (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood, 1977); The Origins of the Cold War, ed. (Wilmington, De.: Scholarly Resources, 1981); Explorations in American History, 2 vols., with Marshall True (New York: Knopf, 1986); George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century (Boston: Twayne, 1989); Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance,and U.S. Strategy in World War II (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000); Major Problems in the History of World War II ed. with Melanie Gustafson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003); Debating Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Foreign Policies, 1933-1945, with Justus Doenecke (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005); Allies in War: Britain and America Against the Axis Powers, 1940-1945 (London: Hodder-Arnold, 2005); and numerous articles and book chapters in U.S. diplomatic and military history. He has been a visiting professor at the U.S. Naval War College (1980-81), Fulbright Professor at the University of Haifa in Israel (1984-85), visiting Professor at the U.S. Military Academy-West Point (1994-95), and the Harold K. Johnson Visiting Professor at the U.S. Army Military History Institute (2004-5). His numerous awards include the Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History for Allies and Adversaries; inclusion in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers; the University of Vermont’s Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award, University Scholar Award, Dean's Lecture Award and Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award; honorary membership in the university’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; and two public service awards from the U.S. Army. He has served on the Army’s Historical Advisory Committee, the Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History, the Board of Directors of the World War II Studies Association, and the Council of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He was the 2004 President of that Society. He retired from UVM in May after 37 years, and this year is the Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College.
Kathleen Dalton is visiting associate professor of history at Boston University. A native Californian, she graduated from Mills College in Oakland, and then moved East to attend the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in history. At Phillips Academy, Andover, she has shared a job with her husband, the historian, E. Anthony Rotundo, and Co-directed the Brace Center for Gender Studies. Author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (2002) and A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover (1986), she has spoken widely about Theodore Roosevelt, including appearances on C-SPAN's Book TV, the History Channel, the Arts and Entertainment Channel, and public television; her writing has appeared in numerous newspapers. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and a Charles Warren Center fellowship at Harvard, and has been elected to the Society of American Historians. She is currently working on her next book, The White Lilies and the Iron Boot, a story of four friends (including Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt) and their attempts to shape U.S. foreign relations during a dangerous time.
Dona Brown - "As Goes Vermont, So Goes the Nation: the Election of 1798"? Ms.Brown is Associate Professor of History at UVM. Her first book, Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995), explores the significance of the tourist trade in creating an enduring image of New England. She has also published a number of articles on the history of tourism and regionalism, and is the editor of a collection of nineteenth-century tourist stories (A Tourist's New England: Travel Fiction, 1820-1920). Brown was director of the Center for Research on Vermont from 2003 to 2006, and teaches courses on Vermont history, New England, and American cultural history. She is currently working on a book about American back-to-the-land movements in the twentieth century."
Melanie Gustafson is an Associate Professor at the University of Vermont in the Department of History and an affiliated faculty member in the Women's Studies Program. Her scholarly work has focused on women and political parties in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the author of Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924, co-editor of the anthology, We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties,1880-1960, and numerous articles and book chapters. She is also the author of the American Historical Association's Becoming a Historian: A Survival Manual for Women and Men and has presented talks on her work to both academic audiences and community groups. Gustafson teaches courses ands seminars in women's history, social history, United States history and feminist theory. She serves as associate for Clio, Inc., a new media company, and on the Vermont Advisory Committee of the United States Civil Rights Commission
Daniel Feller is Professor of History and Editor/Director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He is the author of The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics and The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840 along with many articles, chapters, and essays. He has contributed to standard reference works including The Oxford Companion to United States History, the Dictionary of American History, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Running for President: The Candidates and their Images.
James Roger Sharp is a professor of history at Syracuse University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on American history focusing on the period from the American Revolution down to the Civil War. He is the author of The Jacksonians Versus the Banks and American Politics in the Early Republic and is completing a volume on the Election of 1800 for the University Press of Kansas in their series on presidential elections. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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