John Herd Thompson
John Herd Thompson (1946 – July 12, 2019) was a Canadian historian.
Thompson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and earned a Ph.D. from Queen's University in 1975.[1]
He became an authoratative historian of Canada, and 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.
Works
- The Harvests of War: The Prairie West, 1914-1918; McClelland & Stewart; 1978.[2]
- Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord along, co-authored with Allen Seager; Penguin Random House;1985.[3] Best non-fiction book finalist,1985 Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.[4]
- Canada and the United States Ambivalent Allies, co-authored with Stephen J. Randall; McGill-Queen's University Press;1994.[5]
- British Columbia Land of Promises, co-authored with Patricia Roy; Oxford University Press; 2005.[6]
References
- ↑ "Professor Emeritus John Herd Thompson Dies at Age 72". today.duke.edu. 22 July 2019.
- ↑ Thompson, John Herd (1978). The harvests of war: the Prairie West, 1914-1918. The Canadian social history series. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-8560-4.
- ↑ Thompson, John; Seager, Allen. "Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord". Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
- ↑ "Past GGBooks winners and finalists". Governor General's Literary Awards.
- ↑ Thompson, John Herd; Randall, Stephen J. (1994). Canada and the United States: ambivalent allies. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-1208-5.
- ↑ Roy, Patricia; Thompson, John Herd (2005). British Columbia: land of promises. Illustrated history of Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-541048-8.