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Melanie Zoltan has taught U.S., World, and Latin American History and government courses for Bay Path College, Nichols College, and Carnegie Mellon University. Her writing has appeared in print and online since 1986, for publishers and clients that include PC World, The Washington Post, Boston Globe Magazine, Bay State Parent, Today's Parent, Thomson Gale, W.W. Norton, Pearson, Lerner Media, Prentice Hall, ToysRUs, EBSCO, and more. She is a Contributing Writer for Continuing Education with About.com, owned by The New York Times Co.

Academic Writing and Editing

Her recent academic writing has been published in Great Neck Publishing's Points of View Reference Center on topics including the Mexican Border Wars, Chinese Imports and Child Labor, while a country profile on Paraguay was published in EBSCO's Our World database.

She contributed an article on women and infectious diseases to Infectious Diseases: In Context (ed. Brenda Wilmoth Lerner), named an Outstanding Academic Title by ALA/Choice Magazine in 2008. Her articles on global social and economic issues, including a profile on Columbia's FARC organization, appeared in the Gale Group's Global Issues in Context reference database, named an ALA Outstanding Title and also named one of School Library Journal's 10 Best Digital Resources for 2009 . Forthcoming work in 2011 includes articles in Food: In Context and Top Stories for 2010, both from Gale Cengage.

Melanie worked as a Staff Writer and Editor for SABIS Educational Systems, writing eight books of historical fiction for classrooms in grades two through twelve worldwide, companion workbooks and editing literature anthologies. The books conformed to Massachusetts Department of Education curriculum guidelines for use in History, English, and ESOL classes. Melanie has also copyedited monographs and anthologies for professors at Harvard Law School and Carnegie Mellon University, worked as a Technical Editor for TENCO Media, work as a manuscript reviewer for Cengage Learning, and researched copyright issues for educational publishers.

Journalism, Business and SEO Work

In addition to her academic work, Melanie has written for such newspapers as the Village Views (Akron, Ohio), Telegraph & Gazette (Fitchburg, MA) and Harvard Community Resource. Her SEO, marketing and social media work includes writing materials for The Art institute of Pittsburgh, working as a City Editor for HomeStars.com, SEO business articles and blog posts on VA mortgage loans for VA Mortgage Center and Plus1 Media, writing and editing for Demand Media and writing for The Writers Network.

Melanie has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, once in fiction and once in creative non-fiction, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the American Historical Association. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and three sons.

Books Melanie has written or contributed to:

• I Love My Job! Riverside Publishing, 1996 - essay
• Simon Bolivar, SABIS Educational Publishing, 1999
• Henry XIII, SABIS Educational Publishing, 1999
• Leif Eriksson, SABIS Educational Publishing, 1999
• Queen Amina, SABIS Educational Publishing, 2000
• Hannibal, SABIS Educational Publishing, 2000
• Francisco Pizzaro, SABIS Educational Publishing, 2001
• Salem Witch Trials, SABIS Educational Publishing, 2001
• William of Normandy, SABIS Educational Publishing, 2002
• Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2005- articles on Latin American and U.S. groups
• Extremist Groups, Thomson Gale, 2006 - articles on Latin American and U.S. groups
• Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2006 - articles on historical environmental issues in Latin America and the U.S.
• Medicine, Health and Bioethics: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2006 - articles on the history of medicine and science.
• Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2006 - Project Advisor for this volume. Selected entries and wrote more than 50 articles on gender and sexuality documents throughout modern history.
• Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2006 - articles on U.S., Chinese and Latin American immigration issues.
• Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2006 - articles on U.S. topics.
• Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2006 - articles on U.S. topics.
• Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2006 - articles on Latin American, Chinese and U.S. topics.
• Government, Politics and Protest: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2006 - articles on Latin American, Chinese and U.S. topics.
• Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources, Thomson Gale, 2006 - articles on U.S. topics.
• Infectious Diseases: In Context, Gale, 2007 - article on women, minorities and infectious disease.
• Scientific Thought: In Context, Gale, 2008 - articles on history of science.
• Food: In Context, Gale Cengage, 2011
• Top Stories of 2010, Gale Cengage, 2011
• Biotechnology: In Context, Gale Cengage, forthcoming 2012

If you are an author, publisher, or book publicist with a title you'd like to see covered in History Books or Philosophy Books, please email Melanie using the envelope icon next to her name.