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David Krugler grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He left his home state to attend Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. After graduating with degrees in English and history, he earned a M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He moved back to Wisconsin in 1997 to teach at the University of Wisconsin鈥擯latteville, where he鈥檚 now Professor of History. In 2014, he won the university’s Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. A historian of the modern United States, he has published books on several different topics: Cold War propaganda, nuclear warfare, and racial conflict in the United States. Krugler is the author of听The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945-1953听(University of Missouri Press, 2000),听This Is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C., Prepared for Nuclear War听(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 补苍诲听1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back听(Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is also the editor of the collection听The Cold War: Core Documents听(色中色, 2018).听His first novel,听The Dead Don鈥檛 Bleed听(Pegasus Crime), a World War II spy thriller set in Washington, D.C., came out in 2016. The sequel,听Rip the Angels from Heaven, was published in 2018. Most recently, he鈥檚 been publishing mystery short stories in听Mystery Magazine听补苍诲听Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

Krugler has served as a faculty leader for teacher education programs at the Newberry Library in Chicago and has made dozens of听presentations to academic and public audiences across the country. He is the past recipient of research grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Organization of American Historians, and the White House Historical Association. In Spring 2011, he was a fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin鈥擬adison. He has also appeared in historical documentaries, including the National Geographic Channel documentary听American Doomsday听(2010)听补苍诲听The Elaine Massacre (2019).听He has written for听The Daily Beast听and has been interviewed by the听New York Times, CNN, Associated Press, Slate.com,听Boston Globe,听New York Post,听Washington Post,听San Francisco Weekly, WBEZ (Chicago),听National Geographic, the Karen Hunter Show,听BBC Mundo, RealClearPolitics.com, WUSA (Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin Public Radio, and Milwaukee Public Television.听