Joseph Logsdon
American historian
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| Intro | American historian | ||||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||||
| was | Historian | ||||||
| Work field | Social science | ||||||
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| Birth | 12 March 1938, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA | ||||||
| Death | 2 June 1999Jefferson, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, USA (aged 61 years) | ||||||
| Star sign | Pisces | ||||||
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Joseph Logsdon (March 12, 1938 – June 2, 1999) was an American historian. He was a professor at University of New Orleans. Logsdon is known for his collaboration with Sue Eakin on a 1968 scholarly edition of Twelve Years a Slave.
A Chicago native, Logsdon got his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1960s.
Logsdon died on June 2, 1999, at Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson, Louisiana.