Biography:

Historian; high school teacher; university professor. Born– August 4, 1938, LaGrange, Ga. Parents– Thomas Oliver and Marian (Swindell) Ott. Married– Margaret Franklin, November 25, 1961. Children– Two. Education– Asbury College, B.A., 1961; Appalachian State University, M.A., 1963; University of Tennessee, Ph.D., 1970. Taught at Christ School, Arden, N.C., 1961-1963; Central Florida Academy, 1963-1965; University of North Alabama, 1967-. Member of Southern Historical Association, Southeastern Latin Americanists, and Association of Alabama Historians.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online and Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Publication(s):

The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804. Knoxville, Tenn.; University of Tennessee Press, 1973.