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PhD History Princeton University
Masters History Princeton University
Bachelors History Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Gary Baring Nash was an American historian. He concentrated on the Revolutionary period, slavery and race, as well as the formation of political communities in Philadelphia and other cities. Life and education Nash was born in Merion, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia, suburb. After graduating from Lower Merion High School, he attended Princeton University, where he earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees . From 1955-58, he served in the U.S. Navy on the John W. Weeks , where he was antisubmarine officer and then gunnery officer.

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History on trial : culture wars and the teaching of the past (1998) (332)
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720–1840 (1989) (197)
The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution (1980) (188)
Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. (1992) (102)
Race and Revolution (1990) (92)
The Hidden History of Mestizo America (1995) (88)
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership (1980) (81)
The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979) (71)
The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society (1986) (58)
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005) (54)
Poverty and Poor Relief in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia (1976) (51)
As God Gold was with the Spaniards@@@Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America. (1975) (49)
Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 (1968) (44)
First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2001) (42)
Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775, A. Roger Ekrich (Oxford, Clarendon, 1987) (1992) (40)
Struggle and survival in colonial America (1981) (39)
The Image of the Indian in the Southern Colonial Mind (1972) (35)
Urban Wealth and Poverty in Pre-Revolutionary America (1976) (35)
Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America (1974) (34)
The American Clergy and the French Revolution (1965) (31)
Slaves and Slaveowners in Colonial Philadelphia (1973) (28)
National Standards for United States History: Exploring the American Experience. Grades 5-12. Expanded Edition. Including Examples of Student Achievement. (1994) (27)
Masters and journeymen : a prehistory of industrial relations, 1717-1800 (1981) (26)
The Great Fear: Race In The Mind Of America (1971) (23)
History on trial (1997) (23)
The Distribution of Wealth in Eighteenth-Century America: A Century of Change in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1693–1802 (1968) (23)
New Light on Richard Allen: The Early Years of Freedom (1989) (22)
The forgotten fifth : African Americans in the age of revolution (2006) (22)
Reverberations of Haiti in the American North: Black Saint Dominguans in Philadelphia (1998) (19)
The Philadelphia Bench and Bar, 1800–1861 (1965) (19)
The Transformation of Urban Politics 1700–765 (1973) (16)
Class and Society in Early America (1970) (14)
The History Standards Controversy and Social History (1995) (13)
American Odyssey: The United States in the Twentieth Century (1991) (13)
Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730–1870. By Hendrik Hartog. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. xiv + 274 pp. Maps, chart, tables, notes, and index. $27.50.) (1984) (13)
Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation (2012) (13)
Race, Class, and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society (1986) (12)
African Americans in the Early Republic (2000) (11)
The Population of Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (1975) (11)
Bring History Alive! A Sourcebook for Teaching United States History. (1996) (10)
The Social Evolution of Preindustrial American Cities, 1700-1820 (1987) (10)
Forbidden love : the secret history of mixed-race America (1999) (10)
UP FROM THE BOTTOM IN FRANKLIN'S PHILADELPHIA (1977) (9)
The failure of female factory labor in colonial Boston (1979) (9)
History Standards and Culture Wars. (1995) (9)
Labor in the era of the American revolution: An exchange (1983) (9)
National standards for history for grades K-4 : expanding children's world in time and space (1994) (8)
Sparks from the Altar of ’76: International Repercussions and Reconsiderations of the American Revolution (2010) (8)
Revolution on the Chesapeake@@@A Spirit of Dissension: Economics, Politics, and the Revolution in Maryland. (1973) (8)
African American lives : the struggle for freedom (2005) (8)
The Forgotten Fifth (2006) (7)
The Struggle For Freedom: A History of African Americans (2006) (7)
National standards for world history : exploring paths to the present, grades 5-12 (1994) (7)
Race and Family in the Colonial South (1988) (6)
The Private side of American history : readings in everyday life (1983) (6)
The Framing of Government in Pennsylvania: Ideas in Contact with Reality (1966) (6)
Book Reviews: Eastern State Penitentiary: Crucible of Good Intentions, by Norman Johnston with Kenneth Finkel and Jeffrey A. Cohen. (1995) (6)
Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (2012) (5)
The English on the Delaware (1969) (5)
Franklin and Slavery. (2006) (5)
Also There at the Creation: Going beyond Gordon S. Wood (1987) (5)
Multiculturalism and history: historical perspectives and present prospects (1996) (5)
Early American history and the national history standards (1997) (5)
Bringing History Alive in the Classroom: A Collaborative Project (1991) (4)
National History Standards: Controversy and Commentary. (1995) (4)
Red, White, and Black (1991) (4)
19. The Early Merchants of Philadelphia: The Formation and Disintegration of a Founding Elite (1986) (4)
The National History Standards and George Washington (1997) (4)
Behind the Velvet Curtain: Academic HIstory, Historical Societies, and the Presentation of the Past (1990) (3)
Empire, Society, and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn@@@Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (1999) (3)
Creating History Standards in United States and World History. (1995) (3)
American odyssey : the 20th century and beyond (1999) (3)
The Free Society of Traders and the Early Politics of Pennsylvania (1965) (3)
Contemporary United States : 1969 to the present (2003) (3)
Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (2017) (3)
Black Independence Struggles and the Tale of Two Revolutions: A Review Essay (1998) (2)
The Liberty Bell (2010) (2)
Interview with Professor Shaun McNiff (2019) (2)
CLIO’S CORNUCOPIA: THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY OF HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP ON PHILADELPHIA (2007) (2)
The New York Census of 1737: A Critical Note on the Integration of Statistical and Literary Sources (1979) (2)
Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality (review) (1999) (1)
Perspectives on the History of Seventeenth-Century Missionary Activity in Colonial America (1979) (1)
The Work of Richard Dunn (1997) (1)
Robert A. Geake with Lorin M. Spears, From Slaves to Soldiers: the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution (2019) (1)
Book Review: A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York, by Patricia U. Bonomi (1972) (1)
Class in Early American History: A Personal Journey (2004) (1)
Whither Indian History (1976) (1)
Book Review: Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790. Lester J. Cappon, Editor-in-Chief (1977) (1)
Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America (2010) (1)
Empire, Society and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn (1998) (1)
The First Decade in Pennsylvania: Letters of William Markham and Thomas Holme to William Penn, Part I (1966) (1)
Chapter 4. A New City For A New Nation (2002) (1)
Colonization and settlement, 1608 to 1760 (2003) (1)
Looking back, looking forward (1997) (1)
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. By William D. Piersen (Amherst, Mass.: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. xii, 237 pp.) (1990) (1)
Notes on the History of Seventeenth-Century Missionization in Colonial America (2009) (1)
Lights of liberty : Philadelphia's revolutionary experience : a unit of study for grades 7-12 (2000) (0)
The development of the industrial United States : 1870 to 1899 (2003) (0)
The Long Rise and Short Decline of American Democracy (2013) (0)
The National History Standards Controversy. (1995) (0)
The Great Depression and World War II, 1929 to 1945 (2003) (0)
Book Review: The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. by David Brion Daivs (1976) (0)
Book Review: William Penn: A Biography. by Harry Emerson Wildes (1975) (0)
Postwar United States : 1946 to 1968 (2003) (0)
Mining Industry Responses to Environmental and Social Issues (2001) (0)
Chapter 3. The Revolution’S Many Faces (2002) (0)
The travail of Delaware slave families in the early republic (2019) (0)
Short Notices (2007) (0)
New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (review) (1999) (0)
Wesley Frank Craven (1997) (0)
The Shouldering of Responsibilities (2011) (0)
International Relations and Politics (1984) (0)
Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810@@@Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath (1992) (0)
Expansion and reform : 1813 to 1855 (2003) (0)
3. The Seaport Economies in an Era of War (1979) (0)
Chapter 8. Workshop Of The World, Schoolhouse Of History (2002) (0)
Philadelphia 1772 Tax List (Complete) Matched with 1775 Constables Returns (2018) (0)
The emergence of modern America : 1900 to 1928 (2003) (0)
Philadelphia 1754 TAX LIST FOR CHESTNUT, SOUTH, AND MIDDLE WARDS matched with taxpayers on 1756 tax list (2018) (0)
8. Religious Revival and Politics at Mid-Century (1979) (0)
Book Review: Money and Politics in America, 1755-1775: A Study in the Currency Act of 1764 and the Political Economy of Revolution, by Joseph Albert Ernst (1974) (0)
Book Review: Fisher Ames: Federalist and Statesman, 1758-1808, by Winfred E. A. Bernhard (1966) (0)
5. The Urban Economies in an Era of Peace (1979) (0)
Civil war and reconstruction : 1856 to 1869 (2003) (0)
Three worlds meet beginnings to 1607 (2003) (0)
Philadelphia Tax List 1756 (2015) (0)
6. Political Unrest in the Interwar Period (1979) (0)
A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. By Marc Egnal. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xvii + 381 pp. $36.95.) (1989) (0)
Joseph T. Glatthaar, James Kirby Martin. Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang. 2006. Pp. 434. $30.00 (2008) (0)
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (review) (2003) (0)
9. Prosperity and Poverty: The Seven Years War and Its Aftermath (1979) (0)
From Freedom to Bondage in Seventeenth-Century Virginia@@@"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676. (1982) (0)
Colonial History: Minitexts and Readers@@@The Morning of America, 1603-1789.@@@America's Nation-Time, 1607-1789.@@@The American Colonial Experience: An Essay in National Origins.@@@Early America.@@@America--1603-1789: Prelude to a Nation.@@@America and England, 1558-1776.@@@Remarkable Providences, 1 (1974) (0)
Book Review: The Case for Liberty, by Helen Hill Miller (1966) (0)
Chapter 1. Pieces Of The Colonial Past (2002) (0)
12. The Disordered Urban Economies (1979) (0)
Across the Centuries: Teacher's Edition (2003) (0)
Book Review: Race and Ethnicity: Essays in Comparative Sociology (1975) (0)
Book Review: William Perm's Legacy: Politics and Social Structure in Provincial Pennsylvania, 1726-1755. By Alan Tully (1979) (0)
Book Review: James Claypool's Letter Book, London and Philadelphia, 1660-1684 ed. by Marion Balderston (1967) (0)
Past, Present & Personal: Teaching Writing in U.S. History (2002) (0)
Notes on a Journey to Virginia (2022) (0)
7. The Renewal of War and the Decline of Boston (1979) (0)
Keynote Address: The Many-Sided American Revolution (2012) (0)
Revolution and new nation : 1761 to 1812 (2003) (0)
The Sources of Racism in America (1971) (0)
Native Americans, the National Parks, and the Concept of Historical Inevitability (2011) (0)
THE CONCEPT OF RESERVES - EXPANDED (1987) (0)
Atlas of American History (2006) (0)
Chapter 7. In Civil War And Reconstruction (2002) (0)
Chapter 2. Recalling A Commercial Seaport (2002) (0)
Chapter 9. Restoring Memory (2002) (0)
Alex Saxton: My Friend (2012) (0)
Joseph T. Glatthaar and James Kirby Martin.Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution.:Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution (2008) (0)
Another Urban Crucible: Gary Nash and the New Black Urbanism (2009) (0)
American Indian Studies Center Fortieth Anniversary (2011) (0)
Book Reviews: Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915, by Mitch Kachun. (2005) (0)
Book Review: Labor Organizations: Masters and Journeymen: A Prehistory of Industrial Relations 1717–1800 (1981) (0)
11. The Stamp Act in the Port Towns (1979) (0)
Chapter 6. Reforming Philadelphia (2002) (0)
The Incomplete Revolution (1984) (0)
United States of America (2019) (0)
Franklin and Slavery1 (2006) (0)
Retracing the Past: Readings in the History of the American People (1993) (0)
Chapter 5. A City In Flux (2002) (0)
The African Americans’ Revolution (2012) (0)
David Sweet y Gary B. Nash, eds. Struggle and survival in colonial America. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1981. 398 p. (2012) (0)
Introduction: Making History Matter (2002) (0)
4. The Rise of Popular Politics (1979) (0)
Moral Visions and Material Ambitions: Philadelphia Struggles to Define the Republic, 1776-1836 (review) (2005) (0)
1. The Web of Seaport Life (1979) (0)
2. The Urban Polity (1979) (0)
Book Review: The Papers of William Penn, by Gary B. Nash (1989) (0)
The William Penn Papers, Volume II (1983) (0)
Video Review: A Biography of America. (2002) (0)
10. The Intensification of Factional Politics (1979) (0)

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The Unknown American Revolution