Wesley B. Borucki

Well, ok, Amazon.com asked for a biography, so here it is: I am a native of Detroit, Michigan, raised in the northern Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Township just outside of the Birmingham city limits, and I received a wonderful education in the Birmingham Public Schools. Then my education made me something of a wanderer, as I received my B.A. in history (with teaching certification) from Michigan State University, my M.A. in U.S. history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and my Ph.D. in Southern and U.S. history from The University of Alabama. Yes, as my students sometimes ask, while I was at Alabama, I appeared on the game show Jeopardy! As Weird Al Yankovic sang, I lost, so I can't talk about it; I'm not the best loser in the world.

Anyway, I have taught at Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA) since 2003, where I was blessed to meet my wife Brigid on my first official day on the job, and we have two beautiful daughters now: Deirdre, who was born in October 2011, and Fiona, who came into our lives as our second little miracle in November 2013. My specialties are the Antebellum South, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Colonial history. I also teach survey courses in American and European history/Humanities. I am part of the faculty of the Frederick M. Supper Honors Program at PBA, teaching courses on American political philosophy and the Renaissance and Protestant and Catholic Reformations.

My biographies on Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush are part of Nova Science Publishers' "First Men: America's Presidents" Series. I have published an article in the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, entitled, "You're Dixie's Football Pride: American College Football and the Resurgence of Southern Nationalism," and I have written book reviews for The Journal of Southern History, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, and The Alabama Review. At Alabama, I served as editor-in-chief of the journal Southern Historian in 1998-1999. I am a contributor to Oxford University Press's Encyclopedia of African American History, Macmillan Press's multi-volume Civil Rights in the United States, and the Gale Group's Women in World History. My dissertation, "Yankees in King Cotton's Court: Northerners in Antebellum and Wartime Alabama," has been the basis of presentations at the Families at War Conference at the University of Richmond, the Alabama Studies Symposium in Montgomery and local historical group meetings for the Alabama Humanities Foundation's Speakers Bureau, and, while it has not been published yet, I am still hopeful it can be, as I have received helpful feedback from editors at The University of Alabama Press. Roll Tide!