Bruce Watson is the author of a number of acclaimed books of American history, including Sacco and Vanzetti, Freedom Summer, and Bread and Roses. As a frequent contributor to Smithsonian, Watson wrote more than forty feature articles on topics ranging from eels to Ferraris to the history of Coney Island. His pieces have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Yankee, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003.