Contributors
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Perry K. Blatz is associate professor of history at Duquesne University, where he also directs the graduate program in public history. He is the author of Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875–1925 (SUNY Press, 1994), a co-author of Keystone of Democracy: A History of Pennsylvania Workers (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1999), and the author of a Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide, Eckley Miners’ Village (Stackpole Books, 2003). This is his second article in Pennsylvania History, and he plans to continue research on the role of railroad corporations and animus against them in Pennsylvania’s development during the Civil War era.
John Bloom is an associate professor of history at Shippensburg University. He has a PhD in American studies from the University of Minnesota, and is the author of A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture, To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Indian Boarding Schools, and There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell. He has also coedited with Michael Nevin Willard Sports Matters: Race, Recreation, and Culture.
Jeanine Mazak-Kahne is an assistant professor of history at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as the graduate program and internship coordinator. Jeanine teaches classes in public history, the history of organized crime, and twentieth-century U.S. history. Her current projects include developing a civic engagement component of public history curricula with local historical societies; and an examination of the late 1940s conflict between an aluminum workers’ local (USWA 302) and the District 19 administration of the United Steel Workers of America, against the backdrop of USWA negotiations with Big Steel, as a reflection of a struggle for control of the union local and its influence in community affairs.
Steve Rosswurm, who received his PhD from Northern Illinois University, teaches history at Lake Forest College. He is the author of Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and the American Revolution (1987) and The FBI and the Catholic Church (2009) as well as the editor of The CIO’s Left-Led Unions (1992). His next book will be on the Catholic Church and the CIO. [End Page 431]
