Russell M. LawsonRussell M. Lawson, Northeastern State University. He is author/editor of five encyclopedias, notably Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science (ME Sharpe, 2008) and Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopeda (ABC Clio, 2004), and author of thirteen monographs, notably Apostle of the East: The Life and Journeys of Daniel Little (St. Polycarp Publishing House, 2018), Servants and Servitude in Colonial America (Praeger, 2018), The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith's Voyage to New England (University Press of New England, 2015), Frontier Naturalist: Jean Louis Berlandier and the Exploration of Northern Mexico and Texas (University of New Mexico Press, 2012), Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap, and the American Revolution (Pickering & Chatto, 2011), The Land Between the Rivers: Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819 (University of Michigan Press, 2004), and Passaconaway's Realm: Captain John Evans and the Exploration of Mount Washington (University Press of New England, 2002).

Russell M. Lawson serves as adjunct professor at Northeastern State University, where he writes and teaches on scientists and explorers; the history of ideas; and the history of social, cultural, and political issues.


Russell M. Lawson, PhD, is professor of history at Bacone College, Muskogee, OK.
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