About the Author


        Hi, my name is Amanda MacKinnon and I am a junior at Lake Forest College majoring in History and Political Science.  My academic interests focus primarily on American political and women's history, though I am also intrigued by legal and intellectual history, urban history and politics, and of course the enigmatic Abraham Lincoln.  The common thread, obscured as it may seem, is my sympathetic interest in people whom the course of American history has trampled under foot, namely women and minorities.  I am a native of Las Vegas, Nevada, and I plan to return to my beloved desert after graduate school to work, in some capacity, to defend that region's defenseless: immigrants, Indians, the land, and the water. 
"There was nothing but land: not a country at all...
I had the feeling that the world was left behind, 
that we had got over the edge of it"
-Willa Cather; My Antonia


Joshua Tree National Park, from National Parks of the American Southwest

 
        Outside of my academic life, I spend my time fiendishly enslaved to many addictions, among them running, sushi, Edith Wharton novels, Woody Allen movies, and proselytizing to friends who have not yet accepted the universal truth and salvation offered by my church of die-hard feminism.  Last and (in all probability) least, I am also the Managing Editor of the Stentor, Lake Forest College's student newspaper. 
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Site created April 2002
for History 300: Theory and Methods
by Amanda MacKinnon
Last Updated April 23, 2002