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 A Native of Kansas, David A. Nichols received his Ph.D. in history from the College of William and Mary in 1975, and returned to his alma mater, Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas in 1978, the year in which his book, Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics was published by the University of Missouri Press. That book, still the definitive study of Indian policy during the Civil War, was reissued as a paperback book by the University of Illinois Press in 2000.
In 1985, Dr. Nichols was appointed Vice President for Development at Southwestern, and in 1992, he was appointed Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, a position which he held until his retirement in 2003.
Dr. Nichols’s book on President Eisenhower and civil rights, entitled A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution, was recently published. The book was launched with events at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene and the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas in September, the latter in observance of the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s deployment of troops in Little Rock to support a federal court order for school desegregation. Simon & Schuster describes this publication as “the definitive book on Eisenhower’s civil rights policies.”
Test Prep Network’s Scott Mercer interviewed Professor Nichols regarding his book A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution.
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