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These are the members of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission photographed with President Bush in the Blue Room of the White House, September 23, 2002. Left to right: Lura Lynn Ryan, Darrel Bigham, Joan Flinspach, Michael Bishop, Louise Taper, Gabor Boritt, James Thompson, Pres. Bush, Frank Williams, Richard Durbin, Harold Holzer, James Horton, Jackie Williams, Tommy Turner and Jean Bandler.

 

Books

On Jordan's Banks: The Aftermath of Emancipation in the Ohio River Valley (Forthcoming, University Press of Kentucky, November 2005).

Images of America: Evansville: The World War II Years (Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing, 2005).

(Editor) Proceedings of the Indiana Territory Bicentennial Symposium, June 2000 (Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 2001).

Images of America: Southern Indiana (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000).

(Co-Author, with Connie Weinzapfel and Susan Branigan) Images of America: New Harmony (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999).

Images of America: Evansville (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1998).

Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998).

(Co-Author) Shared Lives, One Community. (Fort Wayne: Indiana Jewish Historical Society, 1998).

An Evansville Album: Perspectives on a River City, 1812-1988 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988).

We Ask Only a Fair Trial: A History of the Black Community of Evansville, Indiana (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).

Reflections on a Heritage: The German Americans in Southwestern Indiana (Evansville: Indiana State University Evansville, 1980).

Articles

"The New Lincoln Collections of the Indiana Historical Society," Indiana Magazine of History, 101 (March, 2005, 38-50..

"The Jewish Experience in Evansville: From the Formative Years to the 1880s." Indiana Jewish History, no. 32 (October, 1998).

"The Evansville Economy and the Second World War," Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 3 (Fall, 1991), 26-31.

"The Evansville Argus and Black Evansville, 1938-1943," Black History News and Notes, 24 (February, 1986), 4-8.

"The Black Family in Evansville and Vanderburgh County: A 1900 Postscript," Indiana Magazine of History, LXXVIII (June, 1982), 154-69.

"German and Black Families in Evansville and Vanderburgh County in 1880: A Comparative Study," The Old Northwest, VII (Fall, 1981), 255-75.

"War as Obligation in the Thought of American Christians, 1898-1920," Peace and Change, VIII (Winter, 1981), 45-57.

"Work, Residence, and the Origins of the Black Ghetto in Evansville, 1865-1900,"

Indiana Magazine of History, LXXVI (December, 1980), 187-318.

"The Black Family in Evansville and Vanderburgh County, Indiana, in 1880," Indiana Magazine of History, LXXV (June, 1979), 117-46.

"The New History and Neglected Hoosiers: A Case Study of Blacks in Vanderburgh County, 1850- 1880," Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Third Series, XII (1978), 88-97.

"Charles Leich and Company of Evansville: A Note on the Dilemma of German Americans during World War I," Indiana Magazine of History, LXX (June, 1974), 95-121.

"From the Green Mountains to the Tombigbee: Henry Hitchcock in Territorial Alabama," Alabama Review, 26 (July, 1973), 209-28.

Chapters in books

 

"The Ohio River," Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Forthcoming, Indiana University Press).

"What Is to be Done? The State of History Education in Indiana," The State of History in Indiana, ed. Paula Corpuz (Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 2001).

"Indiana Since the End of the Civil War," Renaissance in the Heartland: The Indiana Experience, ed. John E. Oliver (Indiana, Pennsylvania: National Council for Geographic Education, 1998).

"The Black Press in Indiana," The Black Press in the Middle West, ed. Henry Lewis Suggs (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), pp. 51-70.

 

Contributor, The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert M. Barrows (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).

"The Evansville Argus and Black Evansville," Indiana's African-American Heritage: Essays from Black

History News and Notes, ed. Wilma Dulin (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1993).

"River of Opportunity: The Economic Consequence of the Ohio," Always a River: An Anthology, ed. Robert L. Reid (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).

"Evansville as Willard Carpenter Knew It," Where There's a Willard (Evansville: Friends of Willard Library, 1986).

"The Other LaFollette: Charles M. LaFollette and the Fate of Liberal Republicanism in Indiana, 1942-1951," Their Infinite Variety: Essays on Hoosier Politicians (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1981).

Contributor to Dictionary of Internationalists, ed. Warren Kuehl (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983), and A Dictionary of the Christian Church (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974).

4. Book Reviews

Book reviews in Journal of American History, Indiana Magazine of History, Michigan Historical Review, American Historical Review, The Public Historian, Annals of Iowa, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and The Old Northwest, 1971-present.

5. Textbooks

Indiana Resource Book (New York: Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 1997). (Glencoe Social Studies: Middle School)

Indiana (Orlando: Harcourt Brace, 1997; 2002) (Historical Consultant; Fourth Grade Textbook)