User:Historymike





Dr. Michael Brooks is a Midwestern historian, journalist, and admitted fantasy football addict. On Wikipedia I spend an inordinate amount of time working on cleanup activities lately, and I have been known to hang out at the Wiki history portal from time to time.

As a journalist I have written for a number of periodicals, including the Toledo Free Press, and my work has been published in a variety of local, regional, and national periodicals. I achieved a level of notoriety for my blog coverage of the North Toledo riot on 15 October 2005; having correctly predicted the violence that ensued, my real-time blog coverage provided images and news reports faster and more accurately than the mainstream media. I happened to find a WiFi signal in the riot zone, and so I blogged while watching the chaos.

I won Touchstone Awards in 2004 and 2005 for best news articles in a non-daily periodical, awarded by the Toledo Press Club. My work on conditions at the Toledo Jeep plant has been translated into German, Spanish, and Portuguese versions.

As an academic I have research interests in epidemiological history, European expansion, and the history of American hate groups. I have taught at the University of Toledo, Monroe County Community College, Owens Community College, Wayne State University, and Lourdes University. I currently work at Bowling Green State University, focusing on the development of online history courses. In 2014 I published a book on the history of the Ku Klux Klan in Wood County, Ohio, and in 2021 I published my second book, which examines the history of white supremacy in Ohio. I have several other manuscripts approaching book length, and I have also published numerous articles in academic journals.

On Wikipedia I spend far too much time on article improvement, finding myself compelled to fix weaker articles I stumble upon and for which I possess some level of expertise. I am not proud of this, but rather look upon this as a pathological obsession. When not writing or teaching, I spend most of my time with my family, my dogs, and my garden.

Articles I Created on Wikipedia

 * John the Painter
 * Peter Linebaugh
 * Petr Tkachev
 * Tambo (Incan structure)

Articles Upon Which I am Spending Far Too Much Time

 * Absolutism (European history)
 * Age of Enlightenment
 * Age of Revolution
 * Africa, Ohio
 * Antonio Maceo Grajales
 * Banyak Islands
 * Blood, Sweat & Tears
 * Book of Ruth
 * Cholera
 * Dutch East India Company
 * French Revolution
 * Gulf of Aden
 * Harry Nilsson
 * Italian unification
 * Kingdom of Cochin
 * Kingdom of Kongo
 * Louis XIV of France
 * Machaquilá
 * Mahjoor
 * Napoleon I of France
 * Napoleon III of France
 * Pedro Cieza de León
 * Peter the Great
 * Potato control law
 * Puggle
 * Revolutions of 1848
 * Russian Provisional Government
 * Smallpox
 * Stolypin agrarian reforms
 * Tennis Court Oath
 * Vasco da Gama
 * War of the Reunions
 * 2005 Toledo Riot

Category: University of Toledo faculty Historymike