Gary B. Nash (1933-2021)

Gary B. Nash was a historian of early America and a member of UCLA’s history department for more than 50 years. Born in July 27, 1933, Nash earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton University.  Upon completing his doctorate at Princeton in 1964, he taught to UCLA in 1966 to 1994, when he retired.

I thought his The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979) was the best work.  He was a finalist Pulitzer Prize for History for Urban Crucible. His others works includes Quakers and Politics, Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 (1968), Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 (1988), and many others. He was a great historian.