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Nancy Beck Young (born November 8, 1963, Dallas) is an American historian. She is Moores Professor of History at University of Houston. [1]

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Life

She graduated from Baylor University, and University of Texas at Austin. [2]

She taught at McKendree College . [3] [4]

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References

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  9. Price, Christopher (September 2020). "Two Suns of the Southwest: Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism. By Nancy BeckYoung. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2019. 289 pp". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 50 (3): 724–725. doi:10.1111/psq.12669. ISSN   0360-4918.
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