James S. Olson
James Stuart Olson is an American academic and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author. In 1994, he was appointed Distinguished Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
Olson is the author or co-author of over thirty books, primarily non-fiction, and usually in the field of history. His most recent book was Bathsheba’s Breast: Women, Cancer, and History, which won the 2002 History of Science Category Award from the Association of American Publishers. Olson wrote the book while suffering a malignant growth which resulted in the amputation of his hand. The book was recognized by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best non-fiction books in America for 2002. In November 2008, Olson was honored by his alma mater, Brigham Young University, with its Distinguished Alumni Service Award.
Works
- Native Americans in the Twentieth Century
- Slave Life in America: A Historiography and Selected Bibliography
- The Ethnic Dimension in American History ;
- Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940 ;
- Catholic Immigrants in America ;
- Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America Since 1945 ;
- Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945 to 1990
- etc.