Alfred Young

This morning I read in the New York Book Review the memoriam to Al Young. I want to express my condolences to his family. The field of Early American History has lost a giant! I was a graduate student of his at Northern Ilinois University and after approval of my disserttion, he and I exchanged many e-mails. Al was many things to me. A father who demanded my best and pushed me to speculate about my dissertation topic. He was also a good friend and my e-mails to him brought out a very...