Thompson, John Herd, 1946-
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Name (Latin)
Thompson, John Herd, 1946-
Other forms of name
Thompson, John Herd
Date of birth
1946
Date of death
2019
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- His The harvests of war, c1978:t.p. (John Herd Thompson) Can. CIP data (b. 1946)
- Canada and the United States, c1997:t.p. (John Herd Thompson) p. 4 of cover (prof. of history at Duke Univ. and dir. of Duke's Canadian Studies Ctr.)
Wikipedia description:
John Herd Thompson (1946 – July 12, 2019) was a Canadian historian. A leading historian of Canada, Thompson taught North American history at a variety of universities, including Simon Fraser University, McGill University, and Duke University during a 40-year teaching career. After retiring from Duke in 2012, he moved to British Columbia. He died from lung cancer in July 2019. Thompson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and earned a Ph. D. from Queen’s University in 1975. He co-authored the book Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord along with Allen Seager. The book was a finalist for the best non-fiction book in the 1985 Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.
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