About our guest ... Dr. Michael Green is an associate professor at UNLV andteaches history courses on nineteenth-century America and on Nevada and LasVegas, for the history department and the Honors College. He earned his B.A.and M.A. at UNLV and his Ph.D. at Columbia University.He has written and published a couple books on the Civil War era. Dr. Green isnow working on writing a history of the Great Basin in the twentieth century forthe University of Arizona Press and a history of organized crime in the twentiethcentury for Rowman & Littlefield. He also is editing A Companion to AbrahamLincoln as part of the Wiley-Blackwell series of historiography volumes.He edits the Wilbur S. Shepperson Series on Nevada History for the University ofNevada Press and is a member of the editorial board for the press. He is amember of the board of directors for The Mob Museum. He is the director ofPreserve Nevada and serves as executive director of the Pacific Coast Branch ofthe American Historical Association.Green is also active in writing and speaking in the community. He writes"Nevada Yesterdays" for Nevada Humanities and KNPR, and a column for thequarterly R-J Sunday magazine.

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