John Dittmer


John Dittmer is an American historian, 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 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.

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