Gann, Lewis H., 1924-1997

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 - 19571959 : 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

From the guide to the Gann-Duignan Papers, 1911-1998, (Hoover Institution Archives)