Louise Mayo is the Chairperson of the Department of History/Political Science at County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ, where she has been a professor for the past twenty-one years. She is the author of The Ambivalent Image (1988) and numerous articles and papers in the fields of women and minority history. She has an M.A. from Cornell University in Modern European and Russian History and a Ph.D. from City University of New York in American history, specializing in immigration and minority history, She teaches courses in Twentieth Century America, History of American Women, History of Minorities, History of American Cities and Suburbs, and Civil War and Reconstruction.