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. NEW EBOOK FORTHCOMING SOON
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, 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 long neglected by historians, winner of the Ohio Academy of History's Publication Award in 1995 and an alternate choice of the History Book Club, this book is a detailed study of "Criminality," resistance, religion, family and work. www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807848190