Steven A Reich

Steven A. Reich is associate professor of history at James Madison University. He received his PhD in 1998 from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was the 1998/1999 Summerlee Research Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwet Studies at Southern Methodist University before coming to James Madison University. He is the author of Soldiers of Democracy: Black Texans and the Fight for Citizenship, 1917-1921, which appeared in the Journal of American History in 1996 and won the Organization of American Historians' Louis M. Pelzer Memorial Award. He is currently completing a book-length study of the social world of early twentieth-century southern lumber camps and sawmills.