First Americans: A History of Native Peoples, Combined Volume

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: First AmericansAuthor: Townsend, Kenneth W./ Nicholas, Mark A.Publisher: Pearson College DivPublication Date: 2012/01/19Number of Pages: 648Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 2011049181

Kenneth Townsend earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991, two years after joining the faculty of the Department of History at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Townsend now serves as chair of the Department of History. He is the author of World War II and the American Indian (2000), South Carolina (2008) and varied articles, and he is revising a book-length manuscript addressing the World War II home front in the Southeastern United States. In summer 2006 Townsend embedded with U.S. Army units in Kabul and Kandahar, Afghanistan and is now

completing a project titled “Shadows of War” that examines the personal imprint of war on soldiers and their families. 

 

Mark A. Nicholas received his PhD from Lehigh University in 2006, and teaches at Florida Atlantic University.  With Joel W. Martin, he edited Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010). He has several ongoing projects, including a book about the Seneca Indians for Michigan State University. Press and a book about the Shawnees in Kansas for University of Arizona Press.