J. Lee Thompson
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1996
M.A., University of Houston, 1992
B.A., University of Houston, 1973

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jlthompson@my.lamar.edu

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J. Lee Thompson teaches Issues in World Cultures, Historical Research, Victorian England, 19th-Century Europe, and 20th-Century Europe, as well as the U.S. history surveys.  His research interests include modern Britain and Europe, the British Empire, British politics, and propaganda.  He has published A Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire (Pickering and Chatto, 2007); Forgotten Patriot: A Life of Alfred, Viscount Milner of St. James’s and Cape Town (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006); Northcliffe: Press Baron in Politics, 1865-1922 (John Murray Publishers, 2000); and Politicians, the Press and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919 (Kent State University Press, 1999).  Dr. Thompson served as president of the Western Conference on British Studies, 2004-2006, and in 2006 was visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University.  Currently, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and 2007 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.

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