The Battle of Lake Erie and Its Aftermath: A Reassessment

Contributors

264 contributors Contributors Ginette Aley is currently a Carey Fellow in the Department of History at Kansas State University and an adjunct professor at Washburn University in Topeka. She has also taught at Virginia Tech, Drake University, and the University of Southern Indiana. She specializes in nineteenth-century rural and frontier America and has published numerous articles and book chapters on westward expansion into the Old Northwest, land policies, and, most recently, Civil War home fronts, North and South. Her coedited with J. L. Anderson essay collection, Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front During the Civil War, is forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press. Daniel Barr is professor of history at Robert Morris University in suburban Pittsburgh, where he specializes in colonial and revolutionary America, Pennsylvania history, and American Indian history. Among his publications are The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers in the Old Northwest Territory, 1750–1850 and Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America. His most recent project is a study of early southwestern Pennsylvania, titled A Colony Sprung from Hell: Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1744–1794 (forthcoming 2014). John P. Bowes is an associate professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University. His first book, Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West (2007), is in the Cambridge University Press series Studies in North American Indian History. His most recent article, “Transformation and Transition: American Indians and the War of 1812 in the Lower Great Lakes,” appeared in the October 2012 issue of the Journal of Military History. His current research project, Northern Indian Removal: An Unfamiliar History, is under contract with University of Oklahoma Press. Charles E. Brodine Jr. has served as a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, DC, since 1987. He is coauthor and coeditor of a number of publications on the early sailing navy, including Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to USS Constitution (2007); Against All Odds: U.S. Sailors in the War of 1812 (2004); volumes 2 and 3 of The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History (1992, 2002); and volume 10 of Naval Documents of the American Revolution (1996). In 2008 Brodine was named a co-recipient of the USS Constitution Museum Foundation’s Samuel Eliot Morison Award in recognition of his “superior leadership and thoughtful scholarship” – 264 – contributors 265 in preserving America’s “maritime heritage and the traditions of the USS Constitution for future generations.” Brian Leigh Dunnigan is associate director and curator of maps at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He formerly served as executive director of Old Fort Niagara in Youngstown, New York (1979–96), and managing director of Historic Fort Wayne, Indiana. Dunnigan has written extensively on the early history of the Great Lakes, including A Picturesque Situation: Mackinac before Photography (2008), Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit (2001), and Siege, 1759: The Campaign against Niagara (1986, 1996). Phyllis Gernhardt is an associate professor of history at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 2008 she received the Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award and is currently updating the university’s history. She is the author of “Justice and Public Policy: Indian Trade, Treaties, and Removal from Northern Indiana, 1826–1846,” in Daniel Barr’s Boundaries Between Us (2006), as well as several book reviews, and she has made numerous conference and guest presentations on U.S. frontier policy in the Great Lakes region. J. Scott Harmon graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1964 and served in destroyers before attending Utah State University and earning his doctorate in history at the College of William and Mary. He served for twenty-four years with the National Park Service as a historian and then as an exhibit planner at Harpers Ferry Center. In the latter role he helped develop exhibits for numerous parks, including Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Salem Maritime, Massachusetts; Martin Luther King Jr. Visitor Center, Atlanta; National Prisoner of War Museum, Andersonville, Georgia; and Springfield Armory, Massachusetts. Harmon transferred from the Park Service to the Naval Academy, where he was director of the Naval Academy Museum and assistant professor of history. Larry L. Nelson was site manager at Fort Meigs State Memorial until his retirement from the Ohio Historical Society in 2004. He is currently an adjunct assistant professor of history at Bowling Green State University’s Firelands College and the editor of Northwest Ohio History. He is the author...