William Everdell
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William Romeyn Everdell is an American teacher and author.
Born in 1941, he graduated from St. Paul's School and from Princeton University. He also holds a Master's degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D in Modern Intellectual History from New York University. He served during the Vietnam War as a U.S. Marine NCO in Morocco and marched against the war following his discharge in 1968.
In 1970, he began teaching History at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York, where he still teaches, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Barbara, who is an administrator at St. Ann's. He has two children and one grandchild.
He is the author of several books, including The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought (1997, 1998) and The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans (1983, 2000). He has also contributed to the New York Times Book Review as well as historical journals and encyclopedias both on- and off-line. He served on the Test Development Committee for the first Advanced Placement World History Exams. A member of the American Historical Association, he has also served as the president of the affiliated Organization of History Teachers, and of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
He has a brief blog at http://commonwealthsman.blogspot.com/2006/02/republics-and-commonwealths.html. Contrary to a previous editor of this entry, Everdell has never lived in Philadelphia or worked (even briefly) as a roadie for Sun Ra or visited Nigeria.
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