Gilbert Sewall

M.S. in Journalism, Columbia University; A.M. in History, Brown University. He is the author of Necessary Lessons: Decline and Renewal in American Schools and the co-author of After Hiroshima: The U.S.A. since 1945. He is editor of The Eighties: A Reader.

Sewall is a former history instructor at Phillips Academy, Andover, and education editor at Newsweek magazine. He has been on the adjunct faculties of New York University (journalism) and Boston University (education), and a research associate at Teachers College, Columbia University. Since 1990, he has been an affiliated scholar with the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. He has also been a Kenan Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, where he was also twice a Visiting Scholar, and a Fellow of the National Humanities Center.

Sewall’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, American Educator, and many other publications. In addition, as director of the American Textbook Council, Sewall has authored several studies, including History Textbooks: A Standard and Guide and Islam in the Classroom: What the Textbooks Tell Us. Sewall created the instructional website Neoclassicism and America, 1750 - 1900, a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, revised in 2016.

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