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  • Administrative Information
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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

    Access

    Collection open for research.
    The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.

    Publication Rights

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.

    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