CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Janet D. Cornelius recently retired as an administrator and faculty member at Danville Area Community College, where she was the first recipient of the A. L. Webster Endowed Chair in the Humanities. She holds B.A., M.A., and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an adjunct faculty member at Eastern Illinois University and the University of St. Francis. She is the author of Constitution Making in Illinois, 1818-1970, and of two books on slavery: When I Can Read My Title Clear: Slavery, Literacy, and Religion in the Antebellum South and Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South. She is collaborating on a study of women in Danville and Vermilion County and is a member of the board of the Illinois State Historical Society.

Tonia Faloon has taught United States and Illinois history for six years at Williamsville High School. She holds a master's degree in history from Illinois State University. She serves as secretary for the Illinois Council for the Social Studies and studies conversational French in her spare time.

Jason Klein is the principal of Hawthorne Academy in Wheeling, Illinois. He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his master's and Ph.D. degrees with an emphasis in school law, school finance, and educational policy from Illinois State University. Before moving into administration, he taught sixth and eighth grade at Jack London Middle School.

B. Pierre Lebeau, professor of history emeritus at North Central College, taught for five years at the United States Naval Academy before joining North Central College in 1966, where he taught Renaissance and Early Modern European History as well as Illinois History and Local History He was translator and editor of all French documents in Naval Documents of the American Revolution, and contributed the chapter "Les Francais, la traite de la fourrure et les Etats-Unis: Etat actuel de la recherche," to La Traite de la fourrure: Les Francais et la decouverte de I'Amerique du Nord, ed. Thierry Lefrancois (La Rochelle, France: Editions de I' Albaron, 1992).

Malcolm W. Moore has taught elementary and middle-school students in the Decatur Public Schools for twenty-six years, where he is currently the chair of the social studies department at Thomas Jefferson Middle School. A graduate of Millikin University with a B.A. in history, Moore earned a master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to previous lesson plans for Illinois History Teacher, he published lesson plans on law and constitution through CRADLE (Center for Research and Development in Law-Related Education) at the Wake Forest University School of Law. A recipient of the Illinois State Board of Education's Award of Excellence, Moore was a finalist for Illinois Teacher of the Year in 1996. That same year, the Illinois state organization of the D.A.R. honored him as its Outstanding Teacher of American History.

Richard Allen Morton is associate professor of History at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is author of Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive, as well as numerous articles concerning Illinois history. He received his undergraduate degree in history from Lincoln University, his master's degree from Eastern Illinois University, and the Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Currently, he is engaged in the research and writing of a political biography of John P. Hopkins and Roger C. Sullivan, founders of the Chicago Democratic political machine.

Delores F. Rauscher is a writer whose special interests are history and medicine. She occasionally teaches writing classes for the English Language Center at Michigan State University and history classes at Lansing Community College. She has taught English and history at the secondary, junior college, and university levels. She taught history and social studies teaching methods at Eastern Illinois University for six years before moving to Michigan. She holds master's degrees in both history and English and has done additional work in history.

Leonard Schlup, an independent historian and resident of Akron, Ohio, earned the M.L.S. degree from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous articles in professional journals and essays in historical dictionaries and editor of It Seems To Me: Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt, (University of Kentucky Press). He is currently at work on three books: Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age, Dictionary of Arizona Biography, and Gilded Age: A Bibliography.

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