User:Historymike
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Michael Brooks is a Midwestern historian, journalist, and admitted fantasy football addict.
As a journalist he currently writes for the Toledo Free Press, and his work has been published in a variety of local, regional, and national periodicals. He achieved a level of notoriety for his blog coverage of the North Toledo riot on October 15, 2005; having correctly predicted the violence that ensued, his real-time blog coverage provided images and news reports faster and more accurately than the mainstream media.
Brooks won Touchstone Awards in 2004 and 2005 for best news articles in a non-daily periodical, awarded by the Toledo Press Club. His work on conditions at the Toledo Jeep plant has been translated into German, Spanish, and Portuguese versions.
As an academic Michael has research interests in epidemiolgical history, European expansion, and Central Asian history.
