found: Cole, D.B. Preparation of secondary-school history teachers, c1983:t.p. (Thomas Pressly)
found: Farm real estate values in the United States by counties, 1850-1959, 1965:title page (Thomas J. Pressly)
found: LC data base, 12-22-84(hdg.: Pressly, Thomas J.; usage: Thomas Pressly)
found: The Seattle Times Obituaries, via WWW, March 25, 2013(April 8, 2012 edition; Professor Thomas James Pressly; born in Troy, Tennessee on January 18, 1919; educated at Harvard University (AB 1940, MA 1941, Ph. D. 1949); he taught American History at Princeton (1946 - 1949) and the University of Washington (1949 - until retirement in 1988).; he was a Ford Foundation Fellow (1951 - 1952) and a fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1955 - 1956); he taught as a visiting professor at Princeton (1953 -1954), Stanford (1963), New York University, Stony Brook (1967), University of London (1968), and the Johns Hopkins University (1969 - 1970); died April 3, 2012 in Seattle, Washington)
found: Organization of American Historians, via WWW, March 25, 2013(Thomas J. Pressly (January 18, 1919-April 3, 2012); emeritus professor of history at the University of Washington); had a reputation as a professor with a strong interest in teaching; in 1965 and 1966, he participated in National Defense Education Act Summer Institutes for High School History Teachers, and later in the 1960s, he served on the American Historical Association's Committee on Teaching and coauthored a booklet for the association on "The Preparation of Secondary School History Teachers;" he also served from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s on the National Advisory Board of the Society for History Education, and in 1989, he contributed an article to the Organization of American Historians' Magazine of History)