William H SienerWilliam H. Siener was Executive Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society for 20 years. Prior to that, he was Curator of History at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY, and Executive Director of the Wyoming Historial and Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre, PA. On several occasions he has served as a consultant to the Organization of American States for museum projects in the Bahamas, and the Eastern Caribbean nation of St. Lucia. His articles and reviews have appeared in The William & Mary Quarterly, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, New York History and other journals. His research interests focus on the cross border relationship between Canada and the United States along the Niagara Frontier. Recent articles include "The Red Scare Revisited: Radicals and the Anti-Radical Movement in Buffalo, NY, 1919-1920" in New York History, "'A barricade of ships, guns, airplanes and men': Arming the Niagara Border, 1920-1930" in the American Review of Canadian Studies, and "Through the Back Door: Evading the Chinese Exclusion Act along the Niagara Frontier, 1900-1924" in the Journal of American Ethnic History. Siener has also done research to verify that masonry remains in Niagara Falls, NY are associated with Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad activities. Those findings were published in Western New York Heritage, magazine and Afro-Americans in New York Life and History in articles Siener co-authored with Thomas A. Chambers of Niagara University. He authored the entry for Buffalo in The Encyclopedia of New York State, and has written for Western New York Heritage magazine. He is a native of Niagara Falls, NY, and holds a BA from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, master's degrees from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. and the University of Southampton, Southampton, England, and a PhD from the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Read More Read Less