Joel Colton

Bio

(1918-2011) Historian. Joel Colton was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Durham, North Carolina.

Full Name

Joel Colton

Locations

Bronx

Author's Timeline

1918

Joel G. Colton was born in the Bronx, New York, on August 23, 1918.

1937

Dr. Colton received a bachelor's degree in history from City College of New York in 1937.

1940

Dr. Colton received a master's in history from Columbia in 1940.

1950

Dr. Colton completed his doctorate at Columbia in 1950.

1951

Compulsory Labor Arbitration in France, 1936-1939
Columbia University Press.

Nonfiction.

1966

Leon Blum: Humanist in Politics
Alfred A. Knopf.

Biography.

1968

The Twentieth Century
Time-Life's "Great Ages of Man," series.

Nonfiction.

2007

A History of the Modern World
10th edition published in 2007.

Textbook co-authored with Robert R. Palmer.

2011

Joel Colton died at his home in Durham, North Carolina, on April 17, 2011.

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