Education:

B.A. Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, 1961
M.A. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 1965
Ph.D. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 1968

Work History:

1961-63 Social Studies Instructor, Kerkhoven, Minnesota, Public Schools
1963-66 Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
1966-67 Research Assistant, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
1968-73 Assistant Professor of History, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD
1973-79 Associate Professor of History, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD
1979- Professor of History, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD
1977-81 Chairman, Division of Social Sciences, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD
1981-87 Dean of Academic Services, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD
1987-95 Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD

Current Teaching and Research Areas:

American History: Early National, Civil War and Gilded Age Periods
Historical Methods and Philosophies
Scandinavian Immigration
Sioux Falls and Regional Upper Midwest

Research and Scholarly Activities:

Co-Compiler of an indexed photo collection of historic Sioux Falls, 1971-1981.

Adviser to a National Endowment for the Humanities Youth grant which produced a report entitled: "Students, Pioneers, and
a Community Sense of History: A Survey Study of Sioux Falls, South Dakota," 1973. This was instrumental in the founding
of the Siouxland Heritage Museum.

Director of a conference sponsored jointly by the Center for Western Studies and the South Dakota Committee on the Humanities
entitled: "Indians and Pioneers: How Their Legacy Can Shape our Future," 1973.

Co-recipient of a grant from the South Dakota Bicentennial Committee to undertake the publication of newspaper accounts of
General George A. Custer's expedition into the Black Hills in 1874, 1973.

Presented a paper entitled: "Dreams, Ambitions, Success and Failure: A Pictorial History of 19th Century Sioux Falls," at the
Dakota History Conference, Madison, SD, April 1974.

Director of NHPRC project to microfilm the R.F. Pettigrew Papers, 1975-76.

Co-director of a project funded by the Sioux Falls Bicentennial Commission to prepare a photographic guidebook to
Old Sioux Falls, 1975-76.

Presented a paper entitled: "David Ramsay and Thomas Brown: Patriot Historian and Loyalist Critic," at the Conference
on American Loyalists at St. Augustine, Florida, February 6-8, 1975.

Presented a paper entitled: "Thomas Brown and the East Florida Rangers," at the fourth annual Florida Bicentennial
Symposium at Tallahassee, Florida, March 21-22, 1975.

Presented a paper entitled: "The Life of Colonel Thomas Brown," at the annual meeting of the Augusta, Georgia Historical
Society, February 27, 1976.

Co-principal investigator, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Project, "Cultural Resource Reconnaissance of Federal Lands
on the Left Bank of Lake Francis Case," 1978.

Presented a paper entitled: "The Historical Background of Land Settlement in Eastern South Dakota," Berdahl-Rolvaag
Lectures, Augustana College, July 13, 1979.

Presented a paper entitled: "The Status of Church Records in South Dakota," Historical Records Preservation
Conference, Pierre, South Dakota, June 9, 1979.

Presented a paper entitled: "Truth is better than fiction: Recollections of the Dakota Frontier by R.F. Pettigrew,"
Dakota History Conference, Madison, South Dakota, April, 1980.

Presented a paper entitled: "From Frontier to Freeway: Societal Changes on the South Dakota Prairie," Part of the
South Dakota Committee on the Humanities Program "The Rural Community in Industrial Times," presented at Beresford,
Howard, Dell Rapids and McCook, South Dakota, Oct. & Nov. 1980.

Presented a paper entitled: "Yankee Empire Builders of the Dakota Frontier," Berdahl-Rolvaag Lectures,
Augustana College, July, 1982.

Consultant to Yale University Films in the preparation of a film proposal on loyalists during the American Revolution, 1984-

Presented a paper entitled, "What Is Local History" Moody County Historical Society Meeting, Jan. 1984.

Presented a paper entitled, "Norwegians on the Dakota Frontier," South Dakota State University, November, 1985.

Presented a paper entitled, "The Social and Economic Environment of the 1780's and Its Impact on the Constitution,"
South Dakota Humanities Scholars Seminar, South Dakota State University, October 17-18, 1986.

Presented a paper entitled: "Lutheran Colleges and the Creative Arts on the Plains," The 12th Annual Symposium of the
Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, March 16-18, 1988.

Historical consultant and editor, Sioux Falls Municipal Band History Project, 1993.

Presented a paper entitled: "Stories, Symbols, and Traditions: Becoming a Member of the Augustana Family,"
Opening Convocation, Augustana College, September, 1994.

History Consultant & Researcher, Falls of the Big Sioux River Sound & Light Show Development Project,
Sioux Falls Parks Department, 1995-96.

Presented a paper entitled: "The Rhythm of an Academic Life," Bush Luncheon, Augustana College, November, 1996.

Presented a paper entitled: "R.F. Pettigrew Tricks the Builders of the Queen Bee Mill: The Rest of the Story,"
Dakota History Conference, Sioux Falls, SD, June 1997.

Consultant-Evaluator, North Central Association of Schools and Colleges, 1993-

Manuscript Reviewer for South Dakota History.

Publications:

"Relief for Nebraska Grasshopper Victims: The Official Journal of Lieutenant Theodore E. True."
Nebraska History, XLVIII (Summer, 1967).

"Loyalists and the American Revolution: Thomas Brown and the South Carolina Backcountry, 1775-1776,"
South Carolina Historical Magazine (two parts), October, 1967 and January, 1968.

"Thomas Brown, Loyalist Partisan, and the Revolutionary War in Georgia, 1777-1783,"
Georgia Historical Quarterly (two parts), LIV (Spring & Summer, 1979).

"The Soderstrom Incident: A Reflection Upon Federal State Relations Under the Articles of Confederation,"
New York Historical Society Quarterly, LV (April, 1971).

Co-author of Prelude to Glory: A Newspaper Accounting of Custer's 1874 Expedition to the Black Hills,
Sioux Falls, 1974.

"The Articles of Confederation and the South," Encyclopedia of Southern History.

"David Ramsay and Thomas Brown: Patriot Historian and Loyalist Critic," South Carolina Historical Magazine,
(October, 1976).

Editor, Dakota Corral (Westerners International) Brand Book No. 1, Privately published by the Center for
Western Studies, 1977.

"Thomas Brown and the East Florida Rangers," in Eighteenth-Century Florida and the Revolutionary South,
Samuel Proctor, ed., Gainesville, 1978.

Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Richard F. Pettigrew Papers, Sioux Falls, 1977.

"Ethnic History Celebrations Being Revived," SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER, July 8, 1979

"The Historical Background of Land Settlement in Eastern South Dakota," in Arthur R. Huseboe, ed.,
Big Sioux Pioneers, Sioux Falls, 1980.

"Dakota Resources: The Richard F. Pettigrew Papers," South Dakota History (Summer/Fall, 1982), pp 182-187.

Co-authored text for South Dakota Library Association's Pre-Centennial Exhibit, (Fall, 1984).

Co-author of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, A Pictorial History, Norfolk, VA, 1985.

History of First Lutheran Church, Pamphlet for 75th Anniversary, First Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls, SD, 1995.

"The Queen Bee Legend: Pettigrew Tricks the Eastern Investors?," accepted for publication by
South Dakota History, (winter 1998 number).

Book Reviews:

Review of John Porter Bloom, ed., The American Territorial System, 1973, in The American Archivist,
(July 1975), p. 384.

Review of Watson Parker & Hugh Lambert, Black Hills Ghost Towns, 1974, in The Western Historical Quarterly,
(October, 1975), p. 450.

Review of E.B. Clark, The Story of Elias Boudinot IV, Journal of American History, (September, 1978), p. 437.

Review of Robert S. Lambert, South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution, 1987, in
The Journal of American History, Fall, 1988.

Review of Catherine McNicol Stock, Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class
on the Northern Plains, in The Sioux Falls Argus Leader, September 15, 1992.