Poverty in America: An Encyclopedia Tapa dura - 2008

Russell M. Lawson is Associate Professor of History at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He has written numerous works in American and European history. He is editor of Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science, 3 vols. (2008). Other recent works include The Isles of Shoals in the Age of Sail: A Brief History and The Piscataqua Valley in the Age of Sail: A Brief History, both published in 2007. He was an editor and contributor to Dictionary of United States History, New England States (2005), Encyclopedia of New England Culture (2005), and The American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience (2003).

Benjamin A. Lawson is a Graduate Instructor in American urban and social history at the University of Iowa. He has previously published entries in Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science, 3 vols. (2008) and has had original maps, drawings, and photographs published in several books. Benjamin also has a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from Oklahoma State University.