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Larry P. Thornton

Professor of History
Hanover College
Hanover, IN 47243-0890
(812) 866-7201
thornton@hanover.edu
B.S. in Secondary Education, Indiana University at South Bend 1974
M.A. in History, Purdue University 1978
Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois 1991
Recipient of the Arthur and Ilene Baynham Award for Outstanding Teaching 1991.
Thornton joined the Hanover College staff in 1986. He currently teaches Foundations of the Modern Age (His 111); The History of Western Civilization (His 221-224); Tsarist Russia (His 241); The Soviet Union (His 242); Studies in Modern Europe (His 245, spring term only); German History from the Beginnings to World War I (His 246); German History 1945-Present (His 247); Nazi Germany (His 349); and Genocide and the Holocaust (His 352).
Current Research:
(1) A comparative study of British and American College student statements on war in the period between World Wars I and II. Documentary base is student newspapers, short stories, poetry, essays, and other printed sources.
(2) Relief Missions to occupied Poland 1940-1941 by the Mennonite Central Committee. Documents housed in the Mennonite Archives, Goshen, Indiana.