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Contributors
Paul Boyer, a native of Dayton, Ohio, and Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, presented an earlier version of this essay at the annual "Culture on the Ohio Frontier" symposium in Marshall, Michigan, April 28–29, 2007.
Samuel Di Rocco II is a third-year doctoral student and instructor in the Department of History at the University of Toledo. A native of Leetonia, Ohio, Sam has a B.A. in history from Ashland University and an M.A. in history from Youngstown State University. This article is derived from his master's thesis, which was directed by Holocaust scholar Saul S. Friedman.
David M. Fahey is professor of history at Miami University, where he has taught since 1969. He coedited the encyclopedia Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History (ABC-Clio, 2003). The Alcohol and Drugs History Society honored him with its first lifetime service award in 2006.
Joseph T. Hannibal is a geologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He is the author of Geology Along the Towpath: Stones of the Ohio & Erie and Miami & Erie Canals (Ohio Division of Geological Survey, 1998).
Dawn Marsh is assistant professor of history, Purdue University.
Michael G. Noll, by trade a cultural geographer, received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and now teaches at Valdosta State University in Georgia. He has published several articles on Prince Maximilian's North American travel accounts.
Mark Stegmaier is professor of history at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he has taught since 1975. His current research involves aspects of Congress during the secession crisis.
Sabina F. Thomas received her Ph.D. from the Technical University in Berlin, Germany. Her expertise is in petrology of metamorphic rocks, but her latest research is focused on earth science education and the application of GPS and GIS. [End Page 3]
