JAMES S. OLSON is Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. He has edited several historical dictionaries for Greenwood Press, including the Dictionary of the Vietnam War (1988), Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism (1991), and The Indians of Central and South America (1991). He co-authored Where the Domino Fell, Winning is the Only Thing, and Native Americans in the Twentieth Century, and has written numerous articles.