Ralph F. Young

Ralph Young is a history professor at Temple University. He has done extensive research in the history of protest movements, terrorist organizations, and 17th-century Puritanism. He is the author of "Dissent: The History of an American Idea," a narrative history of the United States from the standpoint of dissenters and protest movements that reveals the centrality of dissent to American history, and "Dissent in America: The Voices That Shaped a Nation" that is a compilation of primary documents written by American dissenters over the past four hundred years. Young has won several teaching awards at Temple University and has taught his Dissent in America seminar as a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Rome and at Charles University in Prague.

He also writes fiction and has published three thrillers: "Crossfire" (winner of Japan's Suntory Prize for Suspense Fiction), "Double Exposure," and "Hitler's Children." Double Exposure and Hitler's Children are both available in Kindle.