Douglas Harper

Douglas Harper is a historian, author, journalist and lecturer based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. He earned a degree in history and English from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.^[1] He is the author of several historical books, primarily on Civil War-era Chester County, Pennsylvania. He has been featured in a BBC production on the Welsh settlements in America, and has been interviewed for historical articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, and many magazines.^[1] He is the founder of the Online Etymology Dictionary.^[1]

Bibliography

Harper has written the following books:

• If Thee Must Fight: A Civil War History of Chester County, Pa. (Chester County Historical Society, 1990)
• An Index of Civil War Soldiers and Sailors from Chester County, Pa. (Chester County Historical Society, 1995)
• The Whitman Incident: Revolutionary Revisions to an Ephrata Tale (Lancaster County Historical Society Journal, 1995)
• West Chester to 1865: That Elegant & Notorious Place (Chester County Historical Society, 1999)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "About the Author". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/columns/bio.htm. Retrieved 1 April 2009. 

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Name	Harper, Douglas
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Short description	Historian
Date of birth	15 October 1984
Place of birth	Allahabad
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