John Dittmer Explained

John Dittmer (b. 10/30/1939^[1]) is an American historian, and Professor Emeritus of DePauw University.^[2]

Life

John Dittmer is from Seymour, Indiana.^[3] He graduated from Shields High School in Seymour in 1957, being inducted into SHS Wall of Fame in 2006.^[4] He later graduated from Indiana University with bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.

He taught American history at Tougaloo College from 1967 to 1979, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, and at DePauw University from 1985 until 2003.^[5]

The John Dittmer Award at DePauw University is named in his honor.^[6]

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."^[7]

Awards

• 1995 Bancroft Prize
• Lillian Smith Book Award

Works

• Book: Local people: the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi. University of Illinois Press. 1995. 978-0-252-06507-1 .
• Book: Essays on the American civil rights movement. John Dittmer . George C. Wright . W. Marvin Dulaney . Kathleen Underwood . W. Marvin Dulaney . Kathleen Underwood. Texas A&M University Press. 1993. 978-0-89096-540-5 .
• Book: Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. University of Illinois Press. 1980. 978-0-252-00813-9 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=LwMI1Xokv7AC&q=John+Dittmer&pg=PA225. Black Georgia in the Progressive Era. The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays. Christopher C. Meyers. Mercer University Press. 2008. 978-0-88146-111-4 .
• Book: The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. 2009. 978-1-59691-567-1 . The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care.

External links

• "The Good Doctors - by John Dittmer", YouTube
• "Grass Roots Civil Rights", Virginia Quarterly Review, Robert J. Norrell, Autumn 1996

Notes and References

1. News: 1939-10-30 . John Avery Dittmwe born . 8 . The Tribune . 2023-10-21.
2. Web site: The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program | OAH . 2009-12-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101128012732/http://oah.org/activities/lectureship/2009/lecturer.php?id=97 . 2010-11-28 .
3. Web site: Prof. John Dittmer's New Book & Brian Mulroney's 1993 DePauw Visit Cited in Column on Health Care Reform.
4. Web site: SHS Wall of Fame.
5. Web site: Award-Winning Author and Historian, Prof. Emeritus John Dittmer, to Address 2009 Graduates - DePauw University. depauw.edu. 12 April 2018.
6. https://www.depauw.edu/academics/departments-programs/history/scholarshipandawards/dittmeraward/ "John Dittmer Award"
7. Book: Loewen, James. The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. University Press of Mississippi. 2010. 978-1-60473-219-1. Jackson, MS. Back Cover. English.