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Descriptive Summary
Title: Gann-Duignan Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1911-1998
Collection number: 72101
Creator:
Gann, Lewis H., 1924-
Duignan, Peter
Collection Size:
98 manuscript boxes, 11 card file boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 envelope.
(46.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Drafts and galleys of books by L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan, and related correspondence, photographs, and research materials,
relating to colonialism in Africa, the history of Northern and Southern Rhodesia (Zambia and Zimbabwe), the Rhodesian administrator
Godfrey Huggins, aspects of the history of other African countries, the history of Hispanics in the United States, and the
post-World War II Atlantic community.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Collection open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Gann-Duignan Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Access Points
Huggins, Godfrey Martin, Viscount Malvern, 1883-1971.
Colonies in Africa.
Africa.
Africa--History.
Rhodesia.
Rhodesia--Politics and government.
Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
Rhodesia and Nyasaland--Politics and government.
Zambia.
Zambia--Politics and government.
Zimbabwe.
Hispanic Americans--History.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Foreign relations--Europe.
Europe--Foreign relations--United States.
Europe.
Biographical Note
Lewis H. Gann
| 1924, January 26 |
Born, Mainz, Germany |
| 1944-1947 |
Served in British Army (Royal Fusiliers) |
| 1950-1952 |
Research Officer at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Northern Rhodesia (now Institute for Social Research at the University
of Zambia)
|
| 1952-1954 |
Assistant Lecturer, University of Manchester, England |
| 1954-1963 |
Archivist and editor, National Archives of Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
| 1964 |
Doctorate in modern history, Oxford University |
| 1964- |
Research Associate, later Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
Peter Duignan
| 1926, August 6 |
San Francisco, California |
| 1951 |
B.S., University of San Francisco |
| 1960 |
Ph.D., Stanford University |
1955-1957
1959-1960
|
Instructor, Western Civilization, Stanford University |
| 1959 |
Member, Staff, Hoover Institution |
| 1966- |
Curator, African Collection, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; later Curator, African and Middle East Collections,
Senior Fellow
|