About the Author

Neil A. Hamilton holds a B.A. and an M.A. in history from the University of Miami and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Tennessee. He is currently a professor of history at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. Hamilton also serves as adjunct professor of American history at University of South Alabama. A member of the Author's Guild and the Organization of American Historians, Hamilton is the author or coauthor of nine nonfiction books, including The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America, Militias in America: A Reference Handbook, and for Facts On File, and Presidents: A Biographical Dictionary.