Kyle Ward is the director of the social studies education program at St. Cloud State University. He worked as a high school teacher for many years, teaching a variety of subjects. He is a co-author (with Dana Lindaman) of History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History and the author of History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years and Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks, all published by The New Press.

"This thought-provoking study is ideal for history buffs and the general public; for public libraries and teachers' college collections." —Library Journal"A nation's guiding assumptions must be continually re-examined . . . [Ward] shows that looking back and reconsidering history is a prerequisite of the very possibility of moving forward." —History News Network