George W. Geib is Professor Emeritus of History and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. He joined the Butler History faculty in 1965, where he served as Director of the American Studies Program; Chairman of the Butler Faculty Assembly; Head of the Department of History, Political Science and Geography; and acting Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He has won several awards for outstanding teaching, including the Mortar Board Scarlet Quill award and the Dr. John Morton Finney, Jr., Award for Excellence in Legal Education.Dr. Geib is a graduate of Purdue University, where he earned the B. A. with highest distinction, and of the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where he earned the M. A. and Ph. D. in History. He is a specialist in the early American republic and the American Midwest, with particular interest in urban, military, and institutional studies. He is the author of approximately sixty scholarly articles and chapters, and author or co-author of four books on Indiana history: Indianapolis: Hoosiers' Circle City, Lives Touched by Faith, Indianapolis First, and Federal Justice in Indiana.Dr. Geib has been active in a number of professional associations. He is a past president of the Ohio-Indiana American Studies Association and of the Indiana AAUP Conference, and has served on the board of directors of the Indiana Association of Historians and the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences. He has been a member and officer of the Indiana Humanities Council, and represented that group and the Indiana Historical Society as chair of the Indiana Heritage Research Grant Program. He is a past President of the Indianapolis Literary Club.Dr. Geib is active in civic affairs. He is the past president of both the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission and the Indianapolis Civilian Fire Merit Board. He has been a member of the Benjamin Harrison Centennial Commission and of the Indiana Commission on the Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution. In 1984 he was one of Indiana's twelve Presidential Electors. He was named a Sagamore of the Wabash in 1997. He currently serves on the board of the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Side. Dr. Geib resides with his wife, Miriam, in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood of Indianapolis.