Contributors

2 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Michael F. Conlin is associate professor of history at Eastern Washington University, specializing in political, cultural, and social history as well as the history of science in the antebellum U.S. Conlin’s book manuscript, “One Nation Divided by Slavery: Remembering the Founders while Marching toward the Civil War,” is currently under review. Robert M. Owens earned his PhD at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is currently associate professor of history at Wichita State University, and is the author of Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy (2007). Joseph W. Pearson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Alabama, where he also earned his M.A. degree. He has previously published articles on constitutional reform and the Creek War in the North Carolina Historical Review and Alabama Heritage, respectively. Pearson’s forthcoming dissertation explores the political thought and culture of antebellum Whigs. John R. McKivigan is the Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History and editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. His recent publications include Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America (2008) and In theWords of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion (2012) with Heather L. Kaufman. Craig Thompson Friend is professor of history and director of public history at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He is the author of Kentucke’s Frontiers (2010), winner of the 2011 Kentucky Governor’s Award from the Kentucky Historical Society, and Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West (2005). He also contributed to and edited The Buzzel About Kentuck: Settling the Promised Land (1999). Contributors ...