Wilbur Jacobs
American historian
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- PhD History Stanford University
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- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wilbur R. Jacobs was an American historian, with a special interest in Native American, Western, and Environmental history. Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1918, Jacobs moved west at a young age and settled in the Los Angeles area. He started college at Pasadena City College, then earned his B.A. and M.A. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles. After military service during World War II, Jacobs started doctoral study at Johns Hopkins University, but decided to return to UCLA to pursue Western Frontier history under the direction of Lewis Knott Koontz. He finished his doctorate in 1947 and then taught Western Civilization at Stanford University for two years, before accepting a call to the History program at the University of California, Santa Barbara . At the University of California, Santa Barbara, Jacobs served as a founding member of the History Department and also served as Department Chair from 1961-1964.
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