Clara Mildred Thompson (27 November 1881 – 17 February 1975) was a prominent historian and dean of Vassar College where she also chaired its history department.

Thompson was also active in the political campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt and worked as an educational delegate to Europe and the United Nations.

Thompson became the person to live in the Dean's House built by Ruth Adams in 1932.

[1] For an additional year, Thompson work as the dean of women at Free Europe University in Exile.

[2] Thompson contributed to Studies in Southern History and Politics Inscribed to William Archibald Dunning .

by His Former Pupils the Authors (1914), the only woman to publish in the Dunning School of Reconstruction historiography's studies of seven southern states.

She later published Reconstruction in Georgia: Economic, Social, Political: 1865-1872 (1915), considered one of the series' strongest titles.