Encyclopedia Americana - Editors in Chief

Editors in Chief

  • Francis Lieber, 1829-1833. German-American legal scholar; author of "A Code for the Government of Armies" (1863), a key document in the history of the humanitarian treatment of prisoners of war.
  • Frederick Converse Beach, 1902-1917. Engineer and editor of Scientific American magazine.
  • George Edwin Rines, 1917-1920. Author and editor.
  • A. H. McDannald, 1920-1948. Reporter (Baltimore News and Baltimore Evening Sun), editor, and author.
  • Lavinia P. Dudley, 1948-1964. Editor (Encyclopædia Britannica and Encyclopedia Americana) and manager; first woman to head a major American reference publication.
  • George A. Cornish, 1965-1970. Reporter (New York Herald Tribune) and editor.
  • Bernard S. Cayne, 1970-1980. Educational researcher (Educational Testing Service, Harvard Educational Review), editor (Ginn & Co., Collier's Encyclopedia, Macmillan) and business executive (Grolier Inc.).
  • Alan H. Smith, 1980-1985. Editor (Grolier/Encyclopedia Americana)
  • David T. Holland, 1985-1991. Editor (Harcourt Brace, Grolier/Encyclopedia Americana).
  • Mark Cummings, 1991-2000. Editor (Macmillan, Oxford University Press).
  • Michael Shally-Jensen, 2000-2005. Editor (Merriam-Webster/Encyclopædia Britannica).
  • K. Anne Ranson, 2005-2006. Editor (Academic American Encyclopedia, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia).
  • Joseph M. Castagno, 2006–present. Editor (Grolier/Lands and Peoples, New Book of Popular Science).

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