John Dittmer (born 1939) is an American

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, and Professor Emeritus of DePauw University.

Life

John Dittmer is from Seymour, IN. He graduated from Shields High School in Seymour in 1957, being inducted into SHS Wall of Fame in 2006. He later graduated from

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with bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. He taught American history at

Tougaloo College Tougaloo College is a private historically black college in the Tougaloo area of Jackson, Mississippi. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). It was originally established in 1869 by New Yor ...

from 1967 to 1979, at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, Brown University, and at

DePauw University DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the ...

from 1985 until 2003.

Reviews of Other Books

He reviewed ''The Confederate and New-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"'' (edited by James W. Loewen and Edward Sebesta). He called the book an "important" and "persuasive" book, and he argued that it should be "required reading for classroom teachers." He agreed with what the book had to say about "slavery, secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction."

Awards

* 1995

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

* Lillian Smith Book Award

Works

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References

External links

"The Good Doctors - by John Dittmer", ''YouTube''"Grass Roots Civil Rights", ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', Robert J. Norrell, Autumn 1996
21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Bancroft Prize winners Indiana University alumni 1939 births MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty Brown University faculty DePauw University faculty Living people 21st-century American male writers Historians of the civil rights movement {{civil-rights-movement-stub