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Byron Hollinshead

Byron Hollinshead is president of American Historical Publications, a producer of books in history for adults and for children. Previously, he was president of American Heritage Publishing Company and Oxford University Press, Inc. He was publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and Time Machine: American History for Kids, and edited I Wish I'd Been There (books one and two).

He is a former president of National History Day and a distinguished advisor for The National Council for History Education. Hollinshead has been a consultant to several PBS documentaries in history including, most recently, Freedom: A History of US, a sixteen part series from Kunhardt Productions. As an editor and publisher, Mr. Hollinshead has worked with many of the authors in this anthology on their previous books and articles.


I Wish I'd Been There (R)
I Wish I'd Been There

Books

I Wish I'd Been There (R)
I Wish I'd Been There

Books for Native American Heritage Month

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