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Dr. Lukacs taught history at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia until his recent retirement. He held visiting professorships at many universities, including Columbia, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Pennsylvania. A prolific author, he has written more than twenty books, including: Five Days in London, May 1940 (Yale University Press, 1999); A Thread of Years (Yale University Press, 1998); The Hitler of History (A. A. Knopf, 1997); and The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age (Ticknor and Fields, 1993), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of many academic honors and awards. Dr. McClay holds the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in the Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the author of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (University of North Carolina Press, 1994), which received the 1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American intellectual history. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and was designated one of the nation's outstanding educators in the Templeton Honor Rolls for 1997-1998.
