Edward T. O’Donnell, PhD, is a historian, writer, podcaster, and public speaker. He earned his PhD in US History from Columbia University. He is an associate professor of history at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA, where he teaches courses on reform movements, Irish American history, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and US wars.

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