Fred MacDonald:  

Like many LHS grads, I have done many things in the last 54 years. Among them: graduated from UC Berkeley with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in History--earned a Ph.D. in History from UCLA--had a Fulbright Fellowship for doctoral study in Paris, France in 1967-68--became a Professor of History in 1969 at Northeastern Illinois University (in Chicago) and retired from that position in 1996--wrote six books on the history of U.S. radio and television, two e-books on history education, and one political e-novel, and I recently uploaded my Ph.D. dissertation, and completed a novel set in World War I. Married in 1971 and remain happily so to this day. As well as being a professor, I created MacDonald & Associates Ltd., the world's largest privately-owned archive of historical films. For 24 years we provided film clips to documentary makers, TV news, movie studios, ad agencies, and the like. In December 2010, the Library of Congress purchased our entire archive and moved all of my films, tapes, and paper materials to its film preservation campus in Culpeper, Virginia. Now, the J. Fred & Leslie W. MacDonald Collection will be forever preserved alongside the historic papers of Thomas Jefferson and others. I live in retirement in the Chicago suburbs and love the city. I still like to write--it must be the OLYMPIAN STAFF still in me--and have just finished two internet adventure books that meld written words and audio-visual materials. These multimedia e-books are intended to interest young minds in the study of history. The books are available free of charge online. The titles ...Expand for more