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* ''Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat'', with David F. Halaas, et al., University Press of Colorado (1997).
* ''Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat'', with David F. Halaas, et al., University Press of Colorado (1997).
* ''Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent: Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man'', with David F. Halaas, DaCapo Press (2004).
* ''Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent: Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man'', with David F. Halaas, DaCapo Press (2004).
* ''The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865'', 2nd ed., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0806139005}}.
* ''The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865'', 2nd ed., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0806139005}}. {{OCLC|181603435}}.
* ''Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL'', with David F. Halaas and Dan Rooney, DaCapo Press (2007).
* ''Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL'', with David F. Halaas and Dan Rooney, DaCapo Press (2007).
* ''Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867'', University of Oklahoma Press (2017).
* ''Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867'', University of Oklahoma Press (2017).

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Andrew Edward Masich (born February 7, 1955) is the President and CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center. Masich was previously Chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (2011-2016).[1]

Early life and career

Born February 7, 1955 in Yonkers, New York, Masich's family moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1971.[2] He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in 1973 and went on to earn a BA as a double major in History and Anthropology in 1977 and an MA in History from the University of Arizona[3] in 1984. He served as director of the Arizona Historical Society's Rio Colorado Division in Yuma from 1978 to 1985, then as the director of the Central Arizona Division in Phoenix from 1985 to 1990. From 1990 to 1998 he served as vice president of the Colorado Historical Society (now History Colorado), the state's official history agency. Masich also holds a PhD in history from Carnegie Mellon University.[4]

Academic and museum career

Masich is an adjunct history faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University teaching American History and Public History courses.[5]

Masich oversees the operation of the 350,000-square-foot Senator John Heinz History Center, located in the 1898 Chautauqua Lake Ice Company warehouse in downtown Pittsburgh. In 1999, he forged a strategic partnership with the Smithsonian Institution.[6]

Books by Andrew E. Masich

  • Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat, with David F. Halaas, et al., University Press of Colorado (1997).
  • Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent: Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man, with David F. Halaas, DaCapo Press (2004).
  • The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865, 2nd ed., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0806139005. OCLC 181603435.
  • Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL, with David F. Halaas and Dan Rooney, DaCapo Press (2007).
  • Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867, University of Oklahoma Press (2017).

References

  1. ^ "PHMC Official Website".
  2. ^ "Living History". WQED. OnQ Magazine. Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
  3. ^ "Bloomberg".
  4. ^ "Carnegie Mellon University Department of History".
  5. ^ "Andrew E. Masich - Adjunct Professor". Carnegie Mellon University.
  6. ^ "Heinz History Center's Masich looks ahead". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.