JOEL SHROCK earned his Ph.D. from Miami University and is currently an Instructor of History at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities. He has authored an article on race and rape in silent film and co-authored another on student protest of the Vietnam War, which appears in the Greenwood Press volume of essays "The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums". He is currently completing a manuscript on popular children's literature in the Gilded Age.