Nicholas J. Santoro lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife. . He is the author of Atlas of the Indian Tribes of North America and The Clash of Cultures (2009); Pivotal Events that Shaped a Nation 1789 - 2000 (2007); America in the 1930s: The Building Years (2007, privately printed); and Atlas of Slavery and Civil Rights (2006); Other works include a treatise The Bent Brothers of New Mexico and Colorado (2008) and Bank Operations Management (1992).