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OLLI Authors : History

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Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt (3 Titles)
Snapshots of a Century in African American Lives
Published: 2010
Genre: Visual History – Photography – African American Studies
Available for purchase from Amazon.com, AuthorHouse.com, BN.com
Website: SnapshotsOfACentury.com Blog: snapshotsofacentury & YouTube interview
Authors Note: “I teach American Civil War-related courses and I also look forward to teaching on the importance of the preservation of visual history through amateur snapshot collections. This book is the first in a planned series.”

Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt -- Views From My Schoolroom Window
Published: 2010
Genre: Women’s History – History of Education – U.S. Civil War
Available for purchase from Amazon.com, AuthorHouse.com, BN.com
Website: ViewsFromMySchoolroomWindow.com
Authors Note: “I speak on the subject of early roots of American public education as seen through the true story of a 15-year old girl who became a teacher in Wisconsin in the 1850’s.”

Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt -- While Father Is Away: The Civil War Letters of William H. Bradbury
Published: 2003
Genre: U.S. Civil War – U.S. History – Narrative History
Available for purchase from Amazon.com, BN.com, Univ. Press of Kentucky
Website: Civil WarSoldiers.com
Authors Note: “I speak and teach on the true lives of U.S. Civil War soldiers whose preserved letters, diaries, and other writings reveal diverse aspects of the war years at home as well as during battle.”
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Cal. State Univ. San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus (Instructor)

Ivan C Frank -- Israel The Dream: What Then, What Now
Published: 2008 (Self Published).
Available for purchase from Amazon and Olli at Carnegie Mellon University
Genre: Israeli History
Website:
Written: All of my books were written since I retired from the business world.
Authors Note: Additional books written before retirement: Children in Chaos (1992). Building Self-Esteem in At-Risk Youth (1996) . The Cycle of Learning by the Kibbutz Studies Project of Harvard University ( 1983) .
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Carnegie Mellon University (Member)

Fausto Gardini -- Storms Over Luxembourg
Published: 2009.
Available for purchase as an e-book from luxembourgensia.com
(Available as PDF File transfer or on flash drive)
Genre: History – World War I
Website: luxembourgensia.com Blog: knol.google.com/k/fausto-gardini
Written:
Authors Note: e-book recounts the invasion of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by the forces of the German Empire on August 1, 1914
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at University of North Florida (UNF) Jacksonville, FL

Robert W. Kirk - History Of The South Pacific Since 1513
Published 2011 by Outskirts Press
Available for purchase from: Amazon , Barnes and Noble
Genre: History
Web link: Outskirts Press
Written: after retirement
Author's note: Taught 'The South Pacific since Magellan' for OLLI
OLLI Affiliation: CSU Sonoma (Member & Instructor)

David Nicholas (2 Titles)
Urban Europe, 1100-1700
Published in 2003 by New York: Palgrave MacMillan
Available for Purchase from Amazon and Macmillan
Genre: Poetry and Photography
The Northern Lands: Germanic Europe, c. 1270-c. 1500 published in 2009 by Wiley-Blackwell
Available for purchase from Amazon and Wiley
Website:
Written:
Authors Note: Urban Europe could also be classified as Urban Studies, History--Medieval, and History--Early Modern. The Northern Lands could also be classified as History--Medieval.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Clemson University. (Member & Instructor)

Carl G. Schott - Mission to Saint Petersburg
Published: 2011
Publisher: Xlibris
Available for Purchase from: Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Xlibris
Genre: Nonfiction--History/Biography
Author's Web Links: e-carl.com
Written: After retirement
Author's note I lecture on historical topics as well as the craft of writing poetry
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI-USF at Tampa, Florida (Instructor)