Thomas W. Cowger, Ph.D., is a professor of history at East Central Uni­versity in Ada, Oklahoma, and has held the Chickasaw Na­tion Endowed Chair in Native American Studies since 2004. He also serves as director of the Native American Studies program there. He is author of The National Congress of Ameri­can Indians: The Founding Years and co-author of Lyndon Johnson Remembered: An Intimate Portrait of a Presidency. Cowger has also published several articles in ac­ademic journals. He earned his doctorate in history at Purdue University in Indiana in 1994.