Taylor Hollander is a middle school history teacher in Richmond, Virginia. Born in Montréal, Québec and raised in Fergus, Ontario, he worked in the Hamilton steel mills and a Toronto tire plant before earning his undergraduate degree at McGill University. Building on his experiences as a union steward, he moved to the United States to pursue a Masters degree in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and eventually completed his Ph.D. in comparative labor history at Binghamton University. While establishing a middle school program in U.S. and World history, Hollander has published an article in the Journal of Policy History, written several book reviews, and contributed to an on-line teaching curriculum called World History for Us All.