ABSTRACT
Alfred B. Rollins, Jr. holds the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wesleyan University and the Ph.D. in History from Harvard. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has been a Fellow of the Fund for General Education and of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. During Air Force Service in World War II he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He has written extensively and taught recent U.S. History and American politics on various campuses of the State University of New York, at the University of Vermont and at Old Dominion University, where he is now Professor and President Emeritus. He was one of the earliest researchers in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and the first to explore the Howe papers. He has also worked in the Truman and Eisenhower papers. He currently writes fiction and lives with his photographer wife in Norfolk, Virginia.
