Marie Raphael is the author of two historical novels,
Streets of Gold (Persea 2001) and
A Boy From Ireland (Persea, 2007)
. For decades she has worked closely with her husband, Ray Raphael, frequently acting as research assistant and editor. Together they have co-authored two books,
The Idiots Guide to the Founding Fathers and
The Spirit of ’74: How the American Revolution Began. Marie has taught literature and writing at Boston University, College of the Redwoods, and Humboldt State University. Marie and Ray live in Northern California.
Ray Raphael’s twenty books include
A People’s History of the American Revolution (The New Press, 2001, Harper Perennial, 2002, and The New Press, 2016);
The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord (The New Press, 2002);
Founding Myths: Stories that Hide Our Patriotic Past (The New Press, 2004 and 2014);
Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation (The New Press, 2009);
Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012);
Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and What We Get Right (The New Press, 2013). With Alfred F. Young and Gary B. Nash he edited
Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radical and Reformers in the Making of the Nation (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011). His most recent work is
The U. S. Constitution: The Citizen’s Annotated Edition (Vintage, 2016).
In 2013 Raphael received the Bay State Legacy Award from the Massachusetts Humanities Council for his contributions in public history. He has held research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and an associate editor for the
Journal of the American Revolution. His comprehensive, document-based lesson plans on the Constitution are available online at the Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource) website:
http://www.consource.org/lessons/ 