CHRISTOPHER P. BICKFORD (Editor-Volume I) received his B.A. from Union College (1964), his M.A. from Harvard University (1965), and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut (1971). He was formerly the Director of the Connecticut Historical Society, and is now Director of both the Pettaquamscutt Historical Society in Rhode Island and the New London County Historical Society in Connecticut. Besides numerous articles contributed to periodicals and books, he has produced museum exhibits on topics of social and intellectual history in Connecticut and Rhode Island. He is also author of The Connecticut Historical Society, 1825-1975 (1975), Farmington in Connecticut (1982), and co-author of John Warner Barber's Connecticut Towns, 1834-36 (1990). HOWARD R. LAMAR (Editor Volume II) received his doctorate
from Yale University in 1951. He taught at Yale from 1949, serving
as William Robertson Coe Professor of American History and Sterling
Professor of American History until his retirement in 1994. He
is the author of Dakota Territory, 1861-1889 (1956, reprinted
1997), and The Far Southwest, 1846-1912 (1966, revised
and reprinted 2000). Among his many editing credits is The
Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West (1977), which
has been revised and published as the New Encyclopedia of
the American West (1998). Although his special fields are
frontier and western American history, he has long maintained
an interest in Connecticut history, having served as Alderman
of the City of New Haven, 1951-1953. He has taught courses on
nineteenth-century New Haven history and given papers on the
role of the Dutch in Connecticut history. He was a member of
the Connecticut Humanities Council, 1987-1992, and organized
a three-day symposium on the history of Grove Street Cemetery
on the occasion of its two-hundredth anniversary (1998). SANDRA L. RUX (Associate Editor Volume I) received
a B.A. in History from the University of Connecticut (1969),
and her M.A. in History from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
(1980). She is also a graduate of the museum studies program
of the Munson Institute, Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut.
Her business career was with AT&T in New York City as District
Manager of Telecommunications and Information Technology. At
present, her own consulting partnership provides historical research
for architects, museums, historical societies, and for State
and National Register of Historic Places applications. President
of the Guilford (Connecticut) Keeping Society and director of
its two museums, she is also Director of Publications for the
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences in New Haven. A handloom
weaver herself, she has written about nineteenth-century carpet
weaving in Connecticut for the Dublin Seminar for New England
Folklife, Annual Proceedings 1999 (2000) and for a forthcoming
book by the New Haven Preservation Trust.
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