Contributors
- Contributors
Keith A. Dye, PhD, is an assistant professor of history and African and African American studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He researches interactions between African Americans, US foreign relations and African affairs, and local African American activism in the era of decolonization. His current book, The Diplomacy of Theodore Brown and the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War: Negotiating a Destiny, discusses African American efforts to help end the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, 1960-1970.
Scott Kamen is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico-Valencia. His current book project, Bread, Butter, and Tote Bags: The Americans for Democratic Action, the New Politics Movement and the Transformation of American Liberalism, examines how the leaders and intellectuals of the Americans for Democratic Action contributed to a transformation of New Deal liberalism during the civil rights and Vietnam War era that continues to shape the contours of contemporary American liberalism.
Tim Kiska is an associate professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Language, Culture, and Communication Department.
The author would like to thank editor Tom Ferguson; Romie Minor, Assistant Manager for Special Collections at the Burton Historical Collection; Dawn Eurich, archivist, Burton Historical Collection; James E. Hanks, archivist, Detroit Institute of Arts Research Library & Archives; and the staff of the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library.
Robert Knapp graduated from Central Michigan University, earned a PhD in Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania, and went on to teach language and history in Maine, Utah, and for thirty years at the University of California, Berkeley. After a career dealing with ancient Rome and Greece, in retirement he added a deep interest in the local history of central and northern Michigan. He has published three books on gangsters in that area—Mystery Man: Gangsters, Oil, and Murder in Michigan; Small-Town Citizen, Minion of the Mob: Sam Garfield’s Two Lives; and most recently Gangsters Up North: Mobsters, Mafia, and Racketeers in Michigan’s Vacationlands. When in Michigan, he lives in a restored 1888 log home built by his pioneering great-grandfather near Clare.
“It is a pleasure to acknowledge the help and encouragement of two experts on the Lindbergh kidnapping case, independent scholar Michael Melsky and Mark W. Falzini, Archivist, Lindbergh Museum (State Police Museum, West Trenton, New Jersey). Both unsparingly shared their knowledge and access to material I would never have found on my own.”
John H. Martin is a retired attorney and former professor of law. He practiced trust and estate law for over thirty years, retiring from Warner Norcross & Judd. His seventeen years of teaching law were at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Ohio Northern University. He served as reporter for the Estates and Protected Individuals Code, the primary Michigan law governing intestate succession, wills, estate settlement, and guardianship. He co-authors commentary on judicial decisions under that statute published annually by the Institute for Continuing Legal Education. His degrees in economics and law are from the University of Michigan.
Kristin Poling is an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her book Germany’s Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City is forthcoming with University of Pittsburgh Press.
“I wish to thank the editor and anonymous reviewers at the Michigan Historical Review, as well as my students in History 4999 at the University of Michigan— Dearborn. It was while exploring the Bentley Historical Library with my students in this class that I first found the sources and developed the ideas for this project.”
