Contributors

2 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY John Ellis is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Purdue University. His forthcoming dissertation is titled “Wildfire Religion: Methodism as a Youth Movement in Post-Revolutionary America.” David Curtis Skaggs is Professor Emeritus of History at Bowling Green State University, and is the author of five books and editor of ten others. His publications include biographies of War of 1812 naval heroes Thomas Macdonough (2003) and Oliver Hazard Perry (2006). He co-edited with Larry L. Nelson The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814 (2001), which the Michigan State University Press will publish in paperback later this year. Christopher Britten is a 2009 graduate of the University of Michigan with a B.A. in History and Political Science. He is currently serving as an AmeriCorps volunteer at Boys Hope Girls Hope of New Orleans. Thomas C. Mackey is Professor of History at the University of Louisville. To support the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial and the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, he is at work on primary source book for the University of Tennessee Press, ‘To Think Anew, Act Anew’: Public Policy and Judicial Voices of the Civil War Era. Contributors ...