Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York) and co-author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, and A New Deal for New York, which examines the future of post-September 11th Gotham in light of its past. He is Board Chair of the Gotham Center for New York City History at the CUNY Graduate School ( www.gothamcenter.org), an organization devoted to the study and popular promotion of New York City history. Professor Wallace was born and raised in New York City and its environs. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University, studying with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Hofstadter, with whom he collaborated on a history of American Violence published by Knopf in 1970. Professor Wallace has taught history at John Jay College since 1971. His courses include the History of New York City, and the History of Crime in New York City. He has published a series of essays that explore the ways history is used and abused in American popular culture, including pieces on Disney World, Colonial Williamsburg, the Enola Gay controversy at the Smithsonian, and historic preservation. These essays have been collected in Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (1997). He also helped establish and for thirty years helped publish and edit the Radical History Review. He has worked with museums, video and film makers, radio producers, and novelists to make the best new scholarship accessible to non specialists. Professor Wallace served as a senior historical consultant and commentator for Ric Burns’ PBS Special, New York: A Documentary Film, and has advised many local museums, notably the New-York Historical Society and the Museum of the City of New York.