"William Loren Katz is the author of forty books, including such award-winning titles as "Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance," "The Black West," and "Black Women of the Old West." He has lectured in Europe, Africa, and the United States; he has been a Scholar in Residence at Teachers College, Columbia University; and he has served as a consultant to the Smithsonian Institute and to school systems from California to Florida and England. He lives in New York City. Visit him at WilliamLKatz.com.