William E. Watson

William E. Watson is Professor of History at Immaculata University, where he also serves as Director of the Duffy's Cut Project. He obtained his PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania (1990). He is couthor of Massacre at Duffy’s Cut: Tragedy and Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad (The History Press, 2018), Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People (ABC-Clio Publishers, 2015), and The Ghosts of Duffy’s Cut: The Irish Who Died Building America’s Most Dangerous Stretch of Railroad (Praeger Publishers, 2006) and author of Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World (Praeger Publishers, 2003) and
The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union (Greenwood Press, 1998).