Oliver Morton Dickerson’s work available online

Oliver Morton Dickerson’s work available online

Oliver Morton Dickerson (1875-1966) was the third president of Moorhead State Teachers College, serving from 1920 to 1923. A veteran of stateside service during World War I, reaching the rank of Major, his academic training was as a historian of colonial America.

Some of his work is available online at archive.org:

• “American colonial government, 1696-1765,” a revision of his doctoral thesis, is available at https://archive.org/details/americancolonia00dickgoog
• “History and government of Illinois” is at https://archive.org/details/historygovernmen00dick
• His BA thesis, “Illinois State Constitutional Convention of 1862,” is at https://archive.org/details/illinoisstatecon00dick