Biography:

Historian; professor of history; college administrator.  Born– 1954 in Selma, Ala. Parents– Elwood and Sarah Sims. Married– Ellen Guice. Education– Samford University, B.A.; Emory University, M.A., Ph.D.  Professor of history at Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, Texas, 1981-1986; professor and administrator at Belmont College, 1986-2001; vice-president for academic affairs, Muskingum College, 2001-2005; Associate vice-president for academic affairs, Spring Hill College, 2005; named provost at Spring Hill, 2007.

Source:

Dust jacket to The Little Man’s Big Friend; Wayland College catalog; Spring Hill website

Publication(s):

The Little Man’s Big Friend; James E. Folsom in Alabama Politics, 1946-1958. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1985.