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Jack W. Thacker, Jr.
Professor of History
Western Kentucky University
Professor of History, Western Kentucky University
1964 to present
Taught Military History to ROTC Cadets
1972 to present
Conducts annual Cadet staff ride to
Chickamauga National Battlefield
Visiting Professor, U.S. Military Academy
West Point, New York, 1982
Research/Publications:
“Dwight David Eisenhower,” American Portraits
“Charles DeGualle and Modern France,” , 1993
Makers of Modern Europe
“Samuel Plimsoll: The Angry Reformer,” 1972 , 1987
“The Gray-Cambon Letters,” 1970
“Cementing the Entente, the Balmoral Conversions,” 1968
Written over 1600 abstracts of articles in numerous publications
BA, Georgia State University
MA/Ph.D., University of South Carolina
