15 Facts About Ray Raphael

Ray Raphael was born on April 19,1943 and is an American historian and author of twenty books.

Ray Raphael is noted for his work on the American Revolution, the Constitution, and the regional history of Northern California.

In 2002, in The First American Revolution, Ray Raphael chronicled the overthrow of British authority in the hinterlands of Massachusetts in 1774, the year before Lexington and Concord.

In 2009, in Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation, Ray Raphael developed an original synthesis of the Founding Era, blending his previous bottom-up approach into the traditional national narrative.

Ray Raphael next turned to histories of the Constitution: President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive and Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right.

In 2007, with Freeman House, Ray Raphael wrote an in-depth exploration of white-Indian conflicts of the mid-19th century in Northwest California, titled Two Peoples, One Place.

Ray Raphael has written a book on male initiation rites in contemporary American culture, a study of the careers of teachers, and with his son Neil, a juvenile mystery.

In 2006 Raphael edited an issue on the Founders for Forum magazine that included original contributions from scholars Gary Nash, Alfred F Young, Gordon Wood, Pauline Maier, Richard Beeman, Woody Holton, Carol Berkin, and Jack Rakove.

Ray Raphael is currently an associate editor for Journal of the American Revolution.

Ray Raphael holds BA and MAT degrees from Reed College and an MA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ray Raphael spent the summer of 1962 in North Carolina registering black voters and integrating public facilities and the summer of 1964 with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's "Freedom Summer" in Mississippi.

Ray Raphael settled in rural Northern California, where he raised two sons with his wife, Marie.

For fifteen years Ray Raphael taught all subjects except foreign language at a one-room public high school in his remote neighborhood.

Ray Raphael taught at Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods.

Ray Raphael's books have been published in the United Kingdom and translated into German, Portuguese, and Korean.