As a journalist he wrote for the Toledo Free Press, which ceased publication in 2015, and his work has been published in a variety of local, regional and national periodicals.
Brooks won Touchstone Awards in 2004 and 2005 for best news articles in a non-daily periodical, awarded by the Toledo Press Club.[1] He was also awarded an Ohio Newspaper Association award in 2005 for his coverage of conditions at the Toledo Jeep facility, which has been translated into German, Spanish and Portuguese.
In 2007, Brooks was awarded a three-year researchfellowship by the University of Toledo,[3] which allowed him to travel to European archives. His work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, and he has contributed chapters to several academic texts, including Natives and Newcomers: Great Lakes Peoples (2010).[4]
Brooks has been engaged in research on the history of the Ku Klux Klan in Northwest Ohio. This work resulted in the publication of his book, The Ku Klux Klan in Wood County, Ohio (2014). In 2021, Brooks published his second book, co-authored with Bob Fitrakis, a study of white supremacy and hate groups in Ohio.
Bibliographyedit
Brooks, Michael E. The Ku Klux Klan in Wood County. The History Press, 2014.
Brooks, Michael E. and Fitrakis, Robert. A History of Hate in Ohio: Then and Now. Ohio State University Press, 2021.
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