Ambrose Bierce once wrote of the "class of events which by their very nature, and despite any intrinsic interest that they may possess, are foredoomed to oblivion." As a historian, I find myself drawn to events that flirt with membership in that class---a small gathering of isolated student activists, say, or a solitary walk down an Alabama highway. Such events may not be foredoomed, quite, but neither are they assured of a lasting place in human memory. At the moment I'm a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York. My dissertation---a history of the National Student Association---is well underway, as is a biography of William L. Moore, a civil rights activist who was murdered in 1963. My work has appeared in several journals and in the 1998 Longman anthology Student Protest: The Sixties and After, and I've delivered lectures and workshops on the history of American student activism to undergraduate audiences at colleges across the country. The page you're reading links to several others that present various aspects of my work in more detail: Vita is an overview of my scholarly efforts to date. It offers a sense of some of the directions in which my research has taken me, and of some of the connections I draw between different projects. Work showcases selections from completed projects, including the Student Protest essay and two privately distributed collections of the writings of my grandfather, William F. Johnston, an Idaho newspaper editor. Current houses non-scholarly stuff, and occasionally a work-in-progress. It's also the place to look for baby pictures. And Links has, well, links. Anyway, I originally put the page up to make myself available to other folks who were working on---or had some other connection with---the National Student Association or Moore. Both this page and a piece at the United States Student Association site have led to contact with folks doing exciting work.If a similar search led you here, or you're interested in booking me to speak on your campus, be sure to drop me a line---if not, drop me a line anyway. You can get in touch at angus@fecko.com.   ---Angus Johnston  Updated February 2003.