Background
Thompson, Holland was born on July 30, 1873 in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States. Son of D. Matt and Mary Elizabeth (Rice) Thompson.
Thompson, Holland was born on July 30, 1873 in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States. Son of D. Matt and Mary Elizabeth (Rice) Thompson.
Bachelor of Philisophy, University of North Carolina, 1895. Doctor of Laws, University of North Carolina, 1935. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1900, Doctor of Philosophy, 1906.
He served as a high school principal at Concord High School in Concord, North Carolina from 1895-1899, where he wrote an essay about the transformation of southern culture from a rural agricultural to textile/manufacturing way of life that he witnessed while an educator in Concord. This essay, in part, gained Thompson admittance to Columbia University where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1901, and became a full professor of history at City College of New New York Thompson, while professor at City College of New York, was among the leading scholar/historians of the social and industrial transformation of the New South in the early decades of the 20th century.
Member Academy Political Science, American History Association, National Institute Social Sciences, American Association University professors (charter.
Married Isobel Graham Aitkin, July 19, 1905.