Peter H. Argersinger is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus, and a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. A graduate of the University of Kansas, he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Populism and Politics: William A. Peffer and the People's Party and numerous articles on American political and social history and was the recipient of the 1990 Binkley- Stephenson Award of the Organization of American Historians.