Jerry M. CooperJERRY COOPER, Professor of History, University of Missouri at St. Louis, is the recognized authority on the subject of the American militia and the National Guard. He served formally as the Harold K. Johnson Professor at the Army War College. He is the author of The Army and Civil Disorder: Federal Military Intervention in Labor Disputes, 1877-1990 (Greenwood Press, 1980) and is completing a history of the National Guard, which is forthcoming from Greenwood Press. He also co-authored with Glenn Smith, Citizens as Soldiers: A History of the North Dakota National Guard (1986). Read More Read Less