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Margaret Spufford
1935 - 2014 (79 years)
Honor Margaret Spufford, , known as Margaret Spufford, was a British academic and historian. She was Professor of Social and Local History at the University of Roehampton from 1994 to 2001. Early life Spufford was born Honor Margaret Clark in Cheshire on 10 December 1935. Her parents, Mary and Leslie Marshall Clark, were scientists. Her older sister Jean Grove was a glaciologist. During her childhood, Margaret was educated at home by her mother. During World War II, she lived in the Welsh borders to be safer from the threat of bombing. In 1953, with the death of her father, the family moved to Cambridge.
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Helmut Piirimäe
1930 - 2017 (87 years)
Helmut Piirimäe was a prominent Estonian historian. He was professor emeritus of University of Tartu, and an honorary doctor of University of Uppsala. Piirimäe researched Estonian history under the Swedish Empire in the 17th century, but also the Enlightenment in the 18th century, especially the French Revolution.
Go to ProfileRachel Ankeny is a professor of history and philosophy of science at University of Adelaide. In 2020, she was elected as a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for her contributions to our understanding of the foundational roles that organisms play in biological research and her leadership in history and philosophy of science." She is currently the president-elect of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology .
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Kay Saunders
1947 - Present (78 years)
Kay Elizabeth Bass Saunders is an Australian historian and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. Earlyl life and education Saunders was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1947. She graduated with a BA and PhD from the University of Queensland .
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John C. Walter
1933 - Present (92 years)
John Christopher Walter is an American historian, and professor at University of Washington. He graduated from University of Maine, with a Ph.D., in 1972. Awards 1990 American Book Award Works "The Changing Status of the Black Athlete in the 20th Century United States", Studies online1996, City of Liverpool CollegeBlack Athletes and the Color Line: In Their Own Words, with Malina Iida
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John Chester Miller
1907 - 1991 (84 years)
John Chester Miller was a US historian who wrote of the American Revolution and its prominent figures. His books were well received. Born in Santa Barbara, California, he studied at College of Puget Sound for a year before transferring to Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1930. Encouraged by Samuel Eliot Morison to change his postgraduate focus to history, he received master's and doctoral degrees in that field during the 1930s.
Go to ProfileEdward J. Balleisen is an American academic. He is a professor of History at Duke University, and the author or editor of several books. Early life After growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, Edward Balleisen graduated from Princeton University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1987. He earned an MPhil and a PhD from Yale University, in 1992 and 1995 respectively. From 1995 to 1997, he held a postdoctoral fellowship and teaching post at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Balleisen has taught at Duke University since 1997.
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Ian MacPherson
1939 - 2013 (74 years)
Ian MacPherson was a Canadian historian, and a supporter of the co-operative movement. MacPherson was born in Toronto, Ontario. Education MacPherson received his B.A. from the University of Windsor in 1960. After working as a high school teacher for four years, he returned to school, earning his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the University of Western Ontario.
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Antoni Macierewicz
1948 - Present (77 years)
Antoni Macierewicz is a Polish politician and the former Minister of National Defence. He previously served as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service, and Minister of State in the Ministry of National Defence.
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Robert Somerville
1940 - Present (85 years)
Robert Eugene Somerville was, until his retirement, the Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Columbia University, New York. Since July 1, 2020, he has been the Tremaine Professor Emeritus of Religion.
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Jill Julius Matthews
1949 - Present (76 years)
Jill Julius Matthews is an Australian social and feminist historian. She is emeritus professor in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Matthews was born in Adelaide in 1949. She studied at Grange Primary School and then won a scholarship to Methodist Ladies College in Adelaide. She then went to the University of Adelaide where she began a law degree, changed to arts/law and graduated with a BA in 1970. While tutoring at Flinders University, Matthews began a PhD, supervised by Hugh Stretton, at the University of Adelaide. While completing her PhD she ...
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David Rubinstein
1932 - 2019 (87 years)
David Rubinstein was a social historian born of Jewish parentage in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. His father Beryl Rubinstein was a musician. Biography Rubinstein moved to England in 1952 to study for a PhD at London School of Economics where his doctoral thesis was on The decline of the Liberal Party 1880-1900 He then moved to the University of Hull. He lived in Tours for years and latterly lived in York, England, where he was an honorary fellow of the University of York.
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Conor Kostick
1964 - Present (61 years)
Conor Kostick is an Irish historian and writer living in Dublin. He is the author of many works of history and fiction. A former chairperson of the Irish Writers Union and member of the board of the National Library of Ireland, he has won a number of awards.
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Robert J. Cottrol
1949 - Present (76 years)
Robert J. Cottrol is an American legal scholar and legal historian. Career Cottrol holds a chair in the George Washington University Law School and is also a professor of history and sociology at GWU. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and his J.D. from Georgetown Law School. His research concentrates on race relations in U.S. legal history and criminal law contexts. He is the author of five books and dozens of book chapters, law review articles, book reviews, and other published works on slavery, gun control, and others topics. He is also the editor of Gun Control and the Co...
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Caroline Weber
1969 - Present (56 years)
Caroline Elizabeth Weber is an American author and fashion historian. She is a professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College within Columbia University. Her book Proust's Duchess was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
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Margaret Jacob
1943 - Present (82 years)
Margaret Candee Jacob is an American historian of science and Distinguished Professor of Research at UCLA. She specializes in the history of science, knowledge, the Enlightenment and Freemasonry. Life Margaret C. Jacob was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from St. Joseph's College in 1964 with a B.A. degree and then attended Cornell University, earning a master's degree in 1966 and her Ph.D. two years later. Jacob was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of South Florida in 1968 and spent 1969–71 as a lecturer in history at the University of East Anglia. She ...
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Jonathan Wiesen
1968 - Present (57 years)
Jonathan Wiesen is an American history professor. He is a professor of modern European history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and teaches courses on modern German history and the Holocaust.
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Ralph A. Griffiths
1937 - Present (88 years)
Ralph A. Griffiths OBE DLitt FRHistS FLSW is a historian and an emeritus professor at Swansea University. Life Griffiths was born and brought up in a mining valley between Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. He attended "one of Wales' good grammar schools and was well taught in most subjects". He is a graduate of the University of Bristol and was appointed to a research post, and then promoted to higher academic positions, at Swansea in 1964.
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Ronald Toby
1942 - Present (83 years)
Ronald P. Toby is an American historian, academic, writer and Japanologist. Early life Toby earned a doctorate in Japanese history from Columbia University in 1977. Career As a university professor, Toby's teaching experience has included the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California at Berkeley, Keio University, and the University of Tokyo.
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Chang Yu-fa
1935 - Present (90 years)
Chang Yu-fa is a Chinese historian from Taiwan. He was born in Shandong on 1 February 1935, and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Chang earned a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan Normal University, and two master's degrees, one in history from Columbia University, and the other in journalism from National Chengchi University. He served as director of Academia Sinica's from 1985 to 1991, and was elected as academician of Academia Sinica in 1992. After leaving the directorship, Chang remained at the Institute of Modern History as an adjunct research fellow.
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Paul Gerhard Schmidt
1937 - 2010 (73 years)
Paul Gerhard Schmidt was a German medievalist and professor emeritus of medieval Latin philology. Biography Schmidt was born on 25 March 1937 in Pieske near Frankfurt . He took his abitur in 1956 at the Evangelischen Gymnasium in Berlin-Grunewald, and studied classical and medieval Latin philology in Berlin and Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. in July 1962 from the University of Göttingen, with the dissertation Supplemente lateinischer Prosa in der Neuzeit: Ein Überblick über Rekonstruktionsversuche zu lateinischen Autoren von der Renaissance bis zur Aufklärung, and then went to Rome where af...
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Mineke Bosch
1954 - Present (71 years)
Cornelia Wilhelmina Bosch is a Dutch historian born in South Africa. She is Professor of Modern History at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Early life Mineke Bosch was born in Pretoria, South Africa on 2 July 1954. She studied history at the University of Groningen and then received her PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1994. It was titled The gender of science: women and higher education in the Netherlands 1878-1948.
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Clare Stancliffe
1947 - Present (78 years)
Clare Stancliffe is a historian and medievalist. She teaches Ecclesiastical History in the Departments of History and of Theology & Religion at Durham University. She is known for developing the idea of the "colors of martyrdom" in early Irish Christianity.
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Kenneth W. Stein
1946 - Present (79 years)
Kenneth W. Stein is a professor known for studying the Arab–Israeli conflict, in both historical and social-economic context. He spent many years working with the Carter Center from the 1980s, before cutting ties in 2006; and decades teaching at Emory University starting in 1977. His life has been filled with teaching and interdisciplinary study of the Middle East with the publication of many books on the subject of Israel, the Middle East and the foundations of the Arab–Israeli conflict.
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John Colton Greene
1917 - 2008 (91 years)
John Colton Greene was an American historian of science. Biography His father was a professor at the University of South Dakota. John C. Greene grew up in Vermillion, South Dakota, where he graduated in 1934 from Vermillion High School. He graduated in 1938 with a B.A. from the University of South Dakota. In 1939 he graduated with an M.A. in American history from Harvard University and continued studying there for his Ph.D. until 1942 when his academic career was interrupted by WW II. From September 1942 to April 1946, he served in the U.S. Army, travelled to five continents, and attained the rank of captain.
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Ashley Jackson
1971 - Present (54 years)
Ashley Jackson is a professor of imperial and military history in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and a visiting fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Jackson is a specialist in the history of the British Empire. He has featured in various episodes of BBC mockumentaries Cunk on Earth and Cunk on Britain and is a noted fan of Swedish pop band ABBA.
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Judy Jolley Mohraz
1943 - Present (82 years)
Judy Jolley Mohraz is an American women's studies historian. She is a former president of Goucher College and the inaugural chief executive officer and president of the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. Mohraz is the second woman to serve as Goucher's president and the college's ninth president. Mohraz was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the United States Naval Academy Board of Visitors in 1996. She is a former long-time professor and associate provost of Southern Methodist University. Mohraz is the author of The Separate Problem, a collection of case studies of Black education in th...
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Henry C. Boren
1921 - 2013 (92 years)
Henry C. Boren was a historian and author. He was professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina. Professional life Boren is an author of numerous professional articles and books on ancient history specializing in ancient Rome, including "Roman Society, A Social, Economic and Cultural History."
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J. Beverley Smith
1931 - Present (94 years)
Jenkyn Beverley Smith, FLSW, FRHistS , published as J. Beverley Smith, is a historian of medieval Wales, who was successively Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History , Research Professor of Welsh History and Emeritus Professor at Aberystwyth University.
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Douglas A. Boyd
1970 - Present (55 years)
Douglas A. Boyd is an oral historian, archivist, folklorist, musician, and author and currently directs the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. He graduated from Denison University with a B.A. in History and graduated from Indiana University with an M.A. and Ph.D. in folklore. He is known for his work regarding oral history and digital technologies including his work designing and managing the OHMS system . Recently served as executive producer of the documentary Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Distilling the Family Spirit, as well as the award-winning documentary Q...
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Steven J. Zipperstein
1950 - Present (75 years)
Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. Zipperstein earned his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1993 Zipperstein accepted an invitation to teach Jewish Studies for a semester at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia's main center for Archival Studies in Moscow.
Go to ProfileTahir Kamran, , is a notable Pakistani historian and former Iqbal fellow at the University of Cambridge, as professor in the Centre of South Asian Studies. He has authored four books and has written several articles specifically on the history of the Punjab, sectarianism, democracy, and governance. He was the head of the department of history when he founded a semi-annual scholarly journal, The Historian.
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Sergij Vilfan
1919 - 1996 (77 years)
Sergij Vilfan , was a Slovenian jurist and historian, part of the so-called Ljubljana school of historiography, and member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was born as Sergij Wilfan in a wealthy Slovene family in Trieste, Italy. His uncle, Josip Vilfan, was a politician, lawyer and human rights activist. His cousin Joža Vilfan became an influential Communist official and Yugoslav diplomat, while his other cousin Draško Vilfan was a renowned physician. Sergij's father was a naval engineer and Yugoslav diplomat who moved around Europe because of his work, while his mother Ide Jeanrenaud was of an Italian-speaking Triestine of mixed Swiss, Huguenot and Sudeten German descent.
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Lewis V. Baldwin
1949 - Present (76 years)
Lewis V. Baldwin is a historian, author, and professor specializing in the history of the black churches in the United States. He is an acknowledged expert on the Spencer Churches, the oldest black denominationss in the country. He currently teaches at Vanderbilt University.
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Dawn Mabalon
1972 - 2018 (46 years)
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon was an American academic who worked on documenting the history of Filipino Americans. Mabalon was born in Stockton, and earned her doctoral degree from Stanford University; she later taught at San Francisco State University. Mabalon was the co-founder of The Little Manila Foundation, which worked to preserve Little Manila in Stockton, California. During her life, her work elevated the topic of the history of Filipino Americans, in Central California in particular.
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Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
1962 - Present (63 years)
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum is a German historian. Since June 2011 she has headed the Berlin-based Centre for Anti-Semitism Research . Life Stefanie Schüler-Springorum was born in Hamburg, West Germany, a year after the sudden appearance of the Berlin Wall to the east. Her father was the Tehran-born German Professor of Jurisprudence and Criminality, Horst Schüler-Springorum . She grew up in Hamburg, Göttingen and Munich. Her university level studies covered Medieval and Modern History, Ethnology and Political Science, taking her to Göttingen and Barcelona. She received her doctorate i...
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Colin Holmes
1938 - Present (87 years)
Colin Holmes is a British author, scholar, and historian. He retired in 1998 and is now an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. Academic career After attending Tupton Hall Grammar School Holmes entered the University of Nottingham in 1957 as a County Major Scholar to read History. After two years he changed courses and graduated in 1960 in Economic and Social History. He subsequently received a Revis postgraduate scholarship to begin work with Professor J. D. Chambers, an authority on Britain's industrialisation in the 18th and 19th centuries, and wrote a thesis on the life and work of H.
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Hywel Teifi Edwards
1934 - 2010 (76 years)
Hywel Teifi Edwards was a Welsh academic and historian, a prominent Welsh nationalist, a broadcaster and an author in the Welsh language. The BBC journalist Huw Edwards is his son. Early life Born and raised in Aberarth, Cardiganshire, Edwards attended Aberaeron Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Matthew Trundle
1965 - 2019 (54 years)
Matthew Freeman Trundle was a British-born New Zealand academic. From 1999 until 2012 he was a member of the Classics Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. From 2012 until his death in 2019 he was a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Auckland .
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John Lonsdale
1937 - Present (88 years)
John M. Lonsdale is a British Africanist and historian. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern African History at the Centre of African Studies in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Trinity College there. As a schoolboy, he spent three summer holidays during 1953-1956 in Kenya where his father had just taken a job. He read history at Cambridge from 1958 through 1964. In 1956 he started his national service as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles. His first teaching job was in Dar es Salaam in 1964. Lonsdale studied the modern history of Kenya extensively...
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Philippe Levillain
1940 - 2021 (81 years)
Philippe Levillain was a French historian and academic. He specialized in the history of Catholicism and the papacy and notably wrote a historic encyclopedia of the papacy. Biography Levillain attended the Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux for secondary school. He then studied at the École normale supérieure and earned an agrégation in history in 1965. He then served as an assistant professor at Paris Nanterre University from 1975 to 1981. He defended his doctoral thesis, Le deuxième concile du Vatican et sa procédure, in 1972 under the direction of René Rémond at Paris Nanterre University. He was then sent to the , where he directed studies in modern and contemporary history from 1977 to 1981.
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Roy Martin Haines
1924 - 2017 (93 years)
Roy Martin Haines, was a British historian. Early life Haines was the son of Evan George Martin Haines, who served in the Welsh Guards during World War I and died in 1929 aged 32 from an illness attributable to his military service. His mother was Sarah Hilda Haines, Hall, for more than a quarter of a century the highly respected district nurse and midwife in Catshill, near Bromsgrove: she received the Royal Maundy in 1980 at Worcester.
Go to ProfileKeith W. Perkins was a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University . He has written widely on the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the period when it was headquartered at Kirtland, Ohio. Perkins has written articles on figures in the recording of the history of the LDS Church, such as Andrew Jenson, whose work as a historian was the subject of Perkins' masters' thesis. His thesis was cited in Charles T. Morrissey's article "We Call it Oral History", which moved the accepted time of the origin of the term back from the late-1940s to the mid...
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John Shy
1931 - 2022 (91 years)
John Willard Shy was a military historian and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan. Shy was part of a group of military historians who examined the interplay of the military, politics, and society in the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history.
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Daniel Feller
1950 - Present (75 years)
Daniel Feller is an American historian, currently a Professor emeritus at University of Tennessee. Feller earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. His chief interests include early and mid 19th century American history. He is the author of The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics and The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840. Since 2004, Feller and a team of historians have been collaborating on a project to compile the writings of Andrew Jackson in a multi-volume series, The Papers of Andrew Jackson.
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Dominique de Courcelles
1953 - Present (72 years)
Dominique de Courcelles is a French historian of ideas. Biography Studies and Research Dominique de Courcelles studied at the École nationale des chartes. She became an Archiviste-paléographe and Conservateur du patrimoine . She studied with Michel Mollat du Jourdin, Jacques Monfrin, and Yves-Marie Bercé. She was a research fellow at the Casa de Velázquez 1983–1986. She also studied with Albert Hauf and Martí de Riquer. She obtained her Doctorat ès lettres at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in 1988. She also earned a master's degree in theology at the Institut Catholique...
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Vidar Leif Haanes
1961 - Present (64 years)
Vidar L. Haanes is a Norwegian professor of Church- and Intellectual History and rector of MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo. Vidar L. Haanes was President of Universities Norway 2015-17, and member of the Council of European University Association. He is board member of Nordic University Cooperation and of Nordforsk under the Nordic Council of Ministers. He is chair of the board Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Haanes graduated from MF Norwegian School of Theology in 1985, was ordained 1986, Dr. Theol. 1998.
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Paul C. H. Lim
1967 - Present (58 years)
Paul Chang-Ha Lim an American ecclesiastical historian who serves as professor of church history at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. His main research involves the intellectual history and historical theology of Reformation and post-Reformation England.
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Stanisław Salmonowicz
1931 - 2022 (91 years)
Stanisław Salmonowicz is a Polish historian, professor of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning and History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Go to ProfileRichard Ian Kimball is a professor of history at Brigham Young University . He is a leading expert on the history of sports, especially as it relates to the Latter-day Saints. His book Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation 1890-1940 was published by the University of Illinois Press and has been reviewed by such widely recognized journals as the Western Political Quarterly and the American Historical Review. Essentially the same book has also been marketed by Deseret Book under the title To Make True Latter-day Saints: Mormon Recreation in the Progressive Era.
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