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Thomas Clark: Centenarian Historian |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / PEOPLE IN THE NEWS |
| Author: Robert R. Selle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 1,779 Words, 10,828 Characters |
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A hundred years ago, Thomas Clark was born on a cotton farm in the Choctaw country of central Mississippi, an area populated at the time by a plethora of Confederate veterans. It wasn't surprising that as he grew up he felt like he was reliving history. "It was as though I was literally born in the Civil War in Indian country," he says in an interview.
Perhaps that's why he grew fascinated by history and ultimately became a historian of the American experience. Because of his rural roots and captivation by the saga of people migrating across the land and the influence of the land on people, his main focus was Americans' westward movement and the opening of the frontier.
His greatest accomplishment, he notes without hesitation, was teaching about 25,000 students during his lengthy car...
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...and will bring in greater proportion in the future."
In terms of the distant years to come, Clark most of all would like to see the advent of "universal peace, which possibly will never be achieved. But I'd like to see nations--and this nation especially--remove as many of those divisive forces as possible and live as a people of common interests, common goals, and in a free, open society."
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