E. Wilson Lyon
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American diplomatic historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elijah Wilson Lyon was an American diplomatic historian who was the sixth president of Pomona College from 1941 to 1969. Born in Mississippi, he studied at the University of Mississippi and Colgate University, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. During his tenure at Pomona, he guided the college through a transformational and turbulent period, and he is credited with helping shape it into a leading liberal arts institution. After his retirement, he wrote a history of the college, published in 1977.
E. Wilson Lyon's Published Works
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- The history of Pomona College, 1887-1969 (1978) (7)
- The Directory and the United States (1938) (7)
- The Franco-American Convention of 1800 (1940) (5)
- Louisiana in French diplomacy, 1759-1804 (1974) (4)
- The Closing of the Port of New Orleans (1932) (1)
- The man who sold Louisiana : the career of François Barbé-Marbois (1942) (1)
- Milfort's Plan for a Franco-Creek Alliance and the Retrocession of Louisiana (1938) (1)
- Book Review:France and Rhode Island, 1686-1800 Mary Ellen Loughrey (1946) (0)
- The Affair of Louisiana Alexander DeConde (1977) (0)
- Book Review:Requisition in France and Italy: The Treatment of National Private Property and Services Maurice K. Wise (1945) (0)
- Species variability in the inactivation of penicillins G and K. (1951) (0)
- The Sword Was Their Passport: A History of American Filibustering in the Mexican Revolution. By Harris Gaylord Warren. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1943. viii + 258 pp. Bibliography and index. $3.00.) (1944) (0)
- The Man Who Sold Louisiana (1943) (0)
- Book Review:Our Rising Empire, 1763-1803 Arthur Burr Darling (1941) (0)
- Louis-Philippe: Journal de Mon Voyage d'Amérique. Ed. by Suzanne d'Huart. (Dijon, France: Flammarion, 1976. 154 pp. Map, illustrations, and notes. Fr. 50.00.) (1977) (0)
- Book Review:The Spanish Crown, 1808-1931: An Intimate Chronicle of a Hundred Years Robert Sencourt (1932) (0)
- Le consulat et l'empire. Louis Madelin (1934) (0)
- Diderot: The Testing Years. Arthur M. Wilson (1957) (0)
- The Fighting French. Raoul Aglion (1944) (0)
- Tories, Dons, and Rebels: The American Revolution in British West Florida J. Barton Starr Eighteenth-Century Florida: The Impact of the American Revolution Samuel Proctor (1980) (0)
- The Interpretation of History Jacques Barzun Hajo Holborn Herbert Heaton Dumas Malone George La Piana Joseph R. Strayer (1944) (0)
- The Hussey-Cumberland Mission and American Independence: An Essay in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution. Samuel Flagg Bemis (1932) (0)
- The French Foundations, 1680-1693The Catholic Church in the Meeting of Two Frontiers: The Southern Illinois Country (1763-1793) (1935) (0)
- Despatches and Instructions of Conrad Alexandre Gerard, 1778-1780: Correspondence of the First French Minister to the United States with the Comte de Vergennes (1941) (0)
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