Paul Leicester Ford (1865-1902) was an American historian, novelist, and bibliographer. He is the author of The True George Washington and Essays on the Constitution of the United States, among other works. Michael Zuckerman is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth Century and coeditor with Willem Koops of Beyond the Century of the Child: Cultural History and Developmental Psychology, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.