Gordon B. Dodds (March 12, 1932 - August 29, 2003) was a professor of history and then professor emeritus at

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(PSU) as well as an author. He wrote and edited several books and contributed articles and reviews for the ''Journal of American History'', ''Western Political Quarterly'', ''American Historical Review'', ''Pacific Northwest Quarterly'', and ''Oregon Historical Quarterly''. He was born in

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. He earned degrees from

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(BA),

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(MA), and

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(PhD). He also was an instructor at Knox College. He chaired PSU's history department from 1996 to 1999, was a union leader of PSU faculty in the

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, and an archivist for the university after he retired as a professor.

Bibliography

*''A Pygmy Monopolist. The life and doings of R.D. Hume'' (1961) *''The Salmon King of Oregon; R. D. Hume and the Pacific Fisheries'' (1963) *''Oregon: A Bicentennial History'' (1977) *''Oregon: A History'' (1977) *''Hiram Martin Crittenden; His Public Career'' *''The American Northwest; A History of Oregon and Washington'' (1986) *''Varieties of Hope: An Anthology of Oregon Prose'', editor (1993) *''The College That Would Not Die; The First Fifty Years of Portland State University'' (2000) *''The Silicon Forest: High Tech in the Portland Area, 1945 to 1986'' with Craig E. Wollner

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodds, Gordon B American historians Portland State University faculty American writers 1932 births 2003 deaths Knox College (Illinois) faculty Harvard College alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni