Abstract
Joy Hakim is the author of a popular middle school American history text, A History of US, published by Oxford University Press. It is a narrative history, presented in ten small volumes, vetted by top historians, and written to high academic standards. Hakim was also a consultant to a ten-part PBS documentary called Freedom: A History of US, which led to an excellent teachers' Web site: <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus>. She authored a book by the same name that is used as a high school history text. Her latest series, The Story of Science, is published by Smithsonian Books. Hakim was a teacher and journalist who studied elementary and middle school textbooks, found them boring, and decided to do something about it. Despite multiple rejections from textbook publishers, she held her ground on both format and substance. Then Oxford took on her cause. Her books have been best sellers ever since. We asked Joy Hakim to select five exemplary Americans, people everyone should know who have helped frame, if not shape, the identity of the nation. Here we have synthesized her responses from our correspondence and then added highlights from an interview with her (1).
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