John Thompson

John Thompson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and educated at the University of Winnipeg (BA Honours 1968), the University of Manitoba (MA 1969), and Queen's University (PhD 1975).

He taught Canadian and US history at McGill University from 1971 to 1988, and he joined the Canadian Diaspora in the United States in 1989, when he became a professor of history at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He specializes in the history of the United States and Canada, in particular the North American West, and the history of the US-Canada relationship.

He has written or co-written the following titles: The Harvests of War: the Prairie West, 1914–1918 (1978); Canada 1922–1939: Decades of Discord (1985), which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award; Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies, (1993, 1996, 2001, and 2008); Forging the Prairie West (1998); and British Columbia: Land of Promises (2005), which was co-authored with Patricia E. Roy of the University of Victoria.

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