Background
Gonzales, John Edmond was born on September 17, 1924 in New Orleans. Son of Joseph Edmond and Sadie Julia (Albritton) Gonzales.
("A Mississippi Reader" is a compilation of the best of fo...)
"A Mississippi Reader" is a compilation of the best of forty years of articles in The Journal of Mississippi History and is a long-needed supplement to the general histories of Mississippi. A board of editors headed by Dr. John E. Gonzales selected nineteen articles for "A Mississippi Reader" from more than five hundred articles which have appeared in The Journal of Mississippi History since its first issue in 1939. The articles in the volume are "The Disposal of Lands in the Mississippi Territory" by Robert V. Haynes; "Indian Missions and Missionaries" by Percy L. Rainwater; "Mississippi 1817: A Sociological and Economic Analysis" by William B. Hamilton; "The Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1819" by Charles D. Lowery; "The Division of the Mississippi Territory" by Richard A. McLemore; "The Development of the Lyceum Movement in Mississippi" by Laura D. S. Sturdivant; "John A. Quitman: Fire-Eating Governor" by James H. McLendon; "The Vicksburg Campaign" by Archer Jones; "William L. Sharkey and Reconstruction, 1866-1873" by L. Marshall Hall; "Reminiscences of a Mississippian: Henry Stuart Foote" by John E. Gonzales; "Blanche K. Bruce: United States Senator, 1875-1881" by Melvin I. Urofsky; "Democratic Dissensions in Mississippi, 1878-1882" by Willie D. Halsell; "Senator James Zachariah George of Mississippi: Bourbon or Liberal?" by May Spencer Ringold; "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Mississippi, 1890-1920" by A. Elizabeth Taylor; "Writers of Greenville, Mississippi, 1915-1950" by Holmes Adams; "Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and the Mississippi Delta" by William D. McCain; "Fred Sullens and Prohibition" by John R. Skates, Jr.; "Fact and Tradition in Southern History" by Alfred H. Stone; and "Appendix: The Archives and History Building" by Charlotte Capers.
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Gonzales, John Edmond was born on September 17, 1924 in New Orleans. Son of Joseph Edmond and Sadie Julia (Albritton) Gonzales.
Bachelor of Science, Louisiana State University, 1943; Master of Arts, Louisiana State University, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1957.
Member faculty, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 1945-1995; William D. McCain professor of history, University of Southern Mississippi, 1968-1995; Distinguished University professor, University of Southern Mississippi, 1973-1995; professor emeritus, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, since 1995.
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Board of directors University Press of Mississippi, 1970-1989. Member Southern, Louisiana history associations, Mississippi History Society (president 1975-1976), OmicronDelta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi (president chapter), Kappa Phi Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Alpha Theta, Mu Phi Epsilon, Alpha Psi Omega.