Steven Mintz was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Director of the American Cultures Program at the University of Houston before becoming the director of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center . An authority on the history of the family and of children, he is the author and editor of 13 books, including Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, and Moralists & Modernizers: America ’s Pre-Civil War Reformers. A pioneer in the application of new technologies to history, he is the creator of the Digital History website (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu) and past president of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. He is also National Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families and president-elect of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. He chairs the Organization of American Historians Teaching Committee, and is a member of the advisory board of Film & History, the History Teacher, and the OAH Magazine of History, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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