James S. Olson
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James Stuart Olson is an academic and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author. In 1994, he was appointed Distinguished Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.{{cite web|url=http://www.shsu.edu/~pin_www/T%40S/2008/nov0208up.html#olson|author=SHSUOnline|title=Olson Named One Of BYU's 'Distinguished'|accessdate=2008-11-07}}
Olson is the author (or co-author) of over thirty books, primarily non-fiction, and usually in the field of History. His most recent book was Bathsheba’s Breast: Women, Cancer, and History, which won the 2002 History of Science Category Award from the Association of American Publishers. Olson wrote the book while suffering a malignant growth which resulted in the amputation of his hand.History Today; Bathsheba's Breast: Women,...; Jul 2002 The book was recognized by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best non-fiction books in America for 2002. In November 2008, Olson was honored by his alma mater, Brigham Young University, with its Distinguished Alumni Service Award.
Education
:B.A., Brigham Young University
:M.A., Ph.D., The State University of New York at Stony Brook
Works
- Native Americans in the Twentieth Century (Brigham Young University Press)
- Slave Life in America: A Historiography and Selected Bibliography (University Press of America)
- The Ethnic Dimension in American History (St. Martin’s Press);
- Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940 (Princeton University Press);
- Catholic Immigrants in America (Nelson-Hall);
- Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America Since 1945 (The Johns Hopkins University Press);
- Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945 to 1990
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- etc.
Students
Harold Lee Wise;– Author of Inside the Danger Zone:The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf, 1987–1988 (Naval Institute Press, 2007)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060628015622/http://www.shsu.edu/~his_www/olson.html Olson's homepage at SHSU]
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