Kevin Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the 20-century United States and modern American social movements. His most recent book is Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age, which received the National Book Award for nonfiction, the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize, and the Simon Weisenthal Center’s Tolerance Book Award.
Project Title: The Splendid Dead: An American Ordeal