John D. Hicks

(1890-1972) lived in Lincoln. Educator, historian, author, best known for his textbooks The Federal Union (1937) and The American Nation (1941) which were widely used for decades in hundreds of colleges and universities, authored ten books and more than 80 articles and book reviews, taught at five colleges and universities from 1916 to 1957. Consult John D. Hicks, My Life with History: An Autobiography (University of Nebraska Press, 1968) and Contemporary Authors-New Revision Series, Vol 1 (Gale, 1981) 320 and Historians of the American Frontier (Greenwood Press, 1988) 306-315.

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