William Romeyn Everdell is an American teacher and author. Biography Born in 1941, he graduated from St. Paul's School and from Princeton University. A Woodrow Wilson Scholar and Fulbright Scholar, he holds a master's degree in History from Harvard University and a Ph.D from New York University. In 1970, he began teaching at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, where he taught world history until retiring in 2016. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and is the author of a number of books and articles on intellectual history and the history of ideas. One book, The End of Kings (1983, 2000) recaptures the historical definition of "republic" as a state not ruled by one person. Another, The First Moderns (1997) redefines "Modernism" as the abandonment of the continuous in favor of the discrete in the arts and sciences that began in the West in 1872–1913. In 2021 Springer published his The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment, which uses biographical profiles to argue that Wahhabi Islam, Hasidic Judaism, and "Evangelical" Protestant Christianity, which arose nearly simultaneously in the middle of the 18th century CE, are best understood as aspects of what Isaiah Berlin called the Counter-Enlightenment. He has also written on the teaching of history, edited the historical section of the website of the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn and served on the Test Development Committee for the first Advanced Placement World History Exams. A member of the American Historical Association, he has also served as the president of the affiliated Organization of History Teachers, and of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Publications "The Rosières Movement, 1766-1789: A Clerical Precursor of the Revolutionary Cults", French Historical Studies 9:1, 1975 The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans, The Free Press, 1983 (2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 2000) Christian Apologetics in France, 1730-1790: The Roots of Romantic Religion, Edwin Mellen Press, 1987. "The Problem of Continuity and the Origins of Modernism: 1870-1913," History of European Ideas, Pergamon Press, 1988. "From State to Freestate: The Meaning of the Word Republic from Jean Bodin to John Adams" (7th ISECS, Budapest, 7/31/87) in Valley Forge Journal, June, 1991 http://dhm.pdp6.org/archives/wre-republics.html "Complots, Côteries, Conspirations: L'origine de la 'thèse Barruel' dans le roman apologétique" (7/6/89) in L'Image de la Révolution française: Communications présentées lors du Congrès Mondial..., vol III, Paris, 1989 "Monologues of the Mad: Paris Cabaret