Background
Donald Richard McCoy was born on January 18, 1928 Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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National Archives: America's Ministry of Documents, 1934-1968 (Institute of Early American History)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807813273/?tag=2022091-20
Angry voices;: Left-of-center politics in the New Deal era
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006AVNPU/?tag=2022091-20
The Presidency of Harry S. Truman (American Presidency (Univ of Kansas Hardcover))
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700602526/?tag=2022091-20
Donald Richard McCoy
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Career
After serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps at the end of World War II, McCoy began his teaching career at American University in Washington, D.C. From 1951 to 1952, McCoy was an archivist for the National Archives before starting a five-year stint at Cortland State Teachers College (now the State University of New York College) in Cortland, New York. In 1957, McCoy joined the faculty of the University of Kansas, where he taught for the next thirty-eight years. His first book "Angry Voices: Left-of-Center Movements in the New Deal Era" was published in 1958. He died of lung cancer on November 12, 1996, in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.
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Over the years, he received several honors for his writings, including the Byron Caldwell Smith award and was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He wrote more than one hundred historical papers, many of which were published in trade journals. His books include "Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President", "The National Archives: America’s Ministry of Documents, 1934-1968", "Coming of Age: The United States During the 1920s and 1930s", and "The Presidency of Harry Truman".
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1951 - 1952
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1952 - 1957
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1957 - 1995