Contributors

2 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY James P. Cousins received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky and is a member of the History Department of Eastern Kentucky University. He is currently completing a book on education and the creation of regional identity in early Kentucky. Victoria L. Harrison is an instructor in the Department of Historical Studies at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She received a Ph.D. in history from Saint Louis University in 2008. Michael Riesenberg has a B.A. in history and an M.A. of Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati. He has worked for the Civil War Preservation Trust in Washington, D.C., and as director of the Butler County Historical Society in Hamilton, Ohio. Glenn T. Eskew is associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His book, But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle (1997), won the Francis Butler Simkins Prize from the Southern Historical Association for the best first book in southern history. Contributors ...