FreedomCivics - Student Edition: Foundations of American Government: Foundations of American Government: Foundations of American Government

Craig Rhyne is a graduate of the University of Washington (BA, 1974). He has had a lifelong love of American and World History, as well as economics and education. He has authored four books. (There are four authors of FreedomCivics - Foundations of American Government. Rhyne is the primary author.) He is from the Pacific Northwest and has three grown children and six grandchildren.

Richard Calkins spent 40 years in the telephone industry, including seven years as Vice President for developing national telephone industry regulatory and legislative policies at the United States Telephone Association in Washington DC. He graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in Economics and is a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the Economics Honor Society. Calkins spent nine years in the Air National Guard and was trained in electronics and radar systems at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi, graduating as the Honor Graduate of his class. He is the cofounder, with Craig Rhyne and Al Gibson, of the Freedom Education Foundation.

Clark Summers is Assistant Professor, Politics and History at Belmont Abbey College, Belmont NC. He has more than twenty-five years of teaching experience in K-12, vocational, and post-secondary education. A retired Colonel in the US Army Reserve, Clark holds degrees in Humanities (PhD), Strategy & Policy (MSS), International Relations (MA) and Rhetoric (BA).