About Joseph Logsdon
Lived 1938 – 1999 (aged 61). Joseph Logsdon was an American historian and university teacher.
Joseph Logsdon (March 12, 1938 – June 2, 1999) was an American historian. He was a professor at the 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.
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American historian (1938-1999)
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Joseph Logsdon was born on 12 March 1938 in Chicago.
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