Publications

While teaching American labor and social history at the University of Toledo, I co-authored two books. More recently, I've published a novel.

The Custer Conspiracy

A diary found on the Little Big Horn battlefield and held secret for decades by Indians , threatens George Armstrong Custer's reputation & promises promotion for a professor. But two groups don't want it published.

http://www.authorhouse.com/bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=60219

No Strength Without Union: An Illustrated History of Ohio Workers 1803-1980

Winner of the Ohio Historical Association's Publication prize in 1983, this unique state-wide study contains hundreds of photos, detailed statistical and demographic information, and a narrative that traces labor over more than a century and a half in one of the country's most important industrial states.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0877580154

Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775

A study of slavery in a colony too long neglected by historians, and winner of the Ohio Academy of History's Publication Award in 1995, this monograph, is a detailed study of "Criminality," resistance, religion, family and work.