Daniel Mandell is a historian of early America who earned his history Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in 1992 and an M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University in 1989. He was professor of history for 23 years at Truman State University, a public liberal arts college in Missouri, where he regularly taught courses on colonial America, Revolutionary America, Native American history, and the history of American law. Mandell also taught as an adjunct faculty at Assumption University, Worcester Polytechnic, Suffolk University, and University of Georgia; worked in various public policy positions in the Boston area; and taught high school for two years. His most recent book, The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600-1870, was published in spring 2020, and he has written pieces on that topic for TIME and the Washington Post. His other six books have focused on Natives Americans in New England, including Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (1996); Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 (2008), which the Organization of American Historians gave the inaugural Lawrence Levine Award for best book on American cultural history; and King Philip's War (2010). Mandell has also published many articles in edited collections and academic journals; served on various fellowship selection committees; and is an elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, American Antiquarian Society, and Massachusetts Historical Society.
