1. Saunders, C. 1988.The Making of the South African Past145Cape Town For an outline of Thompson's career see esp. ff., which draws in part upon my ‘U.C.T. Historians 1: L.M. Thompson’,Janus(1977). For the context of Thompson's contribution to the development of African Studies in the United States see his own articles: ‘African History in the United States’,African Studies Bulletin, 10, 1 (1968);and ‘The Study of South African History in the United States’, International Journal of African Historical Studies, 25, 1 (1992). Cf. also his remarks in Lynn Berat's interview with him published below: L. Berat, ‘Interview with Leonard Thompson’, esp. 22–25
2. On the Southern African Research Program, see Berat, ‘Interview’, 27–28. The basic source of information on its activities is its annual Newsletter (1977-1993)
3. In 1967 Thompson arranged a scholarship for the author to do post-graduate work at UCLA. The offer was declined, with regret, when a scholarship was offered at St. Antony's College, Oxford
4. Gifford, P. and Louis, W., eds. 1971. Most of his writing has been on South Africa, but note, e.g., his ‘France and Britain in Africa: A Perspective’, in, eds,France and Britain in Africa(New Haven, and his reviews of books on the history of tropical Africa in theAmerican Historical Reviewand elsewhere