Christo­pher C. Gorham is a lawyer and teacher of mod­ern Amer­i­can his­to­ry at West­ford Acad­e­my, out­side Boston. He has degrees in his­to­ry from Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, where he stud­ied under leg­endary labor his­to­ri­an Sid­ney Fine. He has a J.D., sum­ma cum laude, from Syra­cuse Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege of Law, where he served on the edi­to­r­i­al staff of the Syra­cuse Law Review. His writ­ing has appeared in The Wash­ing­ton Post and online journals..