Contributors
- Contributors
Ginette Aley is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana. Her publications on the early Midwest have appeared in the journal Ohio Valley History and in The Boundaries between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750–1850, edited by Daniel P. Barr (Kent State University Press, 2006). She is currently revising her dissertation for publication, "A Republic in the Making: Power, People, and Policies in the Early-Nineteenth-Century West."
Carl Becker is professor emeritus at Wright State University, where he offered courses in the American Civil War and the United States in WWII. He has published numerous journal and reference articles and biographical essays on the Civil War and sports history and is the author of Home and Away: The Rise and Fall of Professional Football on the Banks of the Ohio, 1919–1934 (Ohio State University Press, 1998).
Ron Carden is professor of history and chair of the social science department at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas. A graduate of the University of New Mexico, he has written a biography of Bishop William Montgomery Brown and an article for the Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History on Bishop Brown's path to heresy.
Marc Egnal is professor of history at York University, Toronto. He is completing a book on the causes of the Civil War.
Kevin Gannon is assistant professor of history at Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa. His current research centers on state formation and the construction of nationalism in the early republic, particularly the actions and ideas of groups critical in these processes. His essay is part of a larger project entitled "Nationalism's Opposites: States' Rights, Nullification, and the Secession in the Antebellum North."
Deborah Marinski earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Toledo and is currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of Toledo. Her areas of interest are late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century U.S. history.
Sarah E. Miller earned her Ph.D. from the University of Toledo and is assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina Salkehatchie.
Robert A. Wheeler, associate professor of history at Cleveland State University, received his Ph.D. from Brown University. He is co-author of Cleveland: A Concise History and co-editor of The Social Fabric, a two-volume reader. He is also the editor of Visions of the Western Reserve, 1750–1860 (Ohio State University Press, 2000). [End Page 6]
