Stephen Tootle is Professor of History at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California.  He taught American political history, American intellectual history, and U.S. foreign policy at the University of Northern Colorado and Georgia State before moving back to his hometown to start a family in 2007.  His reviews, articles, and essays have appeared in National Review, the Claremont Review of Books, Presidential Studies Quarterly, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the History News Network, and his hometown newspaper.  He co-hosts a weekly podcast/webcast, “Tootle Talk.”