American Foreign Relations: Volume 2: Since 1895

About BrighamDeborah KisatskyJ. Garry CliffordKenneth HaganMichael DonoqhueShane J. MaddockThomas Paterson

Thomas G. Paterson professor emeritus of history at the University of Connecticut graduated from the University of New Hampshire (B.A. 1963) and the University of California Berkeley (Ph.D. 1968). He is the author of Soviet-American Confrontation (1973) Meeting the Communist Threat (1988) On Every Front (1992) Contesting Castro (1994) America Ascendant (with J. Garry Clifford 1995) and A People and a Nation (with Mary Beth Norton et al. 2001). Tom is also the editor of Cold War Critics (1971) Kennedy's Quest for Victory (1989) Imperial Surge (with Stephen G. Rabe 1992) The Origins of the Cold War (with Robert McMahon 1999) Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (with Michael J. Hogan 2004) and Major Problems in American Foreign Relations (with Dennis Merrill 2010). With Bruce Jentleson he served as senior editor for the Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations (1997). A microfilm edition of The United States and Castro's Cuba 1950s-1970s: The Paterson Collection appeared in 1999. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of American History and Diplomatic History. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship he has directed National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers. In 2000 the New England History Teachers Association recognized his excellence in teaching and mentoring with the Kidger Award. Besides visits to many American campuses Tom has lectured in Canada China Colombia Cuba New Zealand Puerto Rico Russia and Venezuela. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations which in 2008 honored him with the Laura and Norman Graebner Award for lifetime achievement in scholarship service and teaching. A native of Oregon Tom is now informally associated with Southern Oregon University. J. Garry Clifford teaches at the University of Connecticut where he is a professor of political science and director of its graduate program. Born in Massachusetts he earned his B.A. from Williams College (1964) and his Ph.D. in history from Indiana University (1969). He has also taught at the University of Tennessee and Dartmouth College and has participated in two National Endowment for the Humanities seminars for high school teachers at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. For his book The Citizen Soldiers (1972) he won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. With Norman Cousins he has edited Memoirs of a Man: Grenville Clark (1975) and with Samuel R. Spencer Jr. he has written The First Peacetime Draft (1986). He also co-authored America Ascendant (with Thomas G. Paterson 1995). With Theodore A. Wilson he edited and contributed to Presidents Diplomats and Other Mortals: Essays in Honor of Robert H. Ferrell (2007). Garry's chapters have appeared in Gordon Martel ed. American Foreign Relations Reconsidered (1994) Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson eds. Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (1991 and 2004) Arnold A. Offner and Theodore A. Wilson eds. Victory in Europe 1945 (2000) and in the Journal of American History Review of Politics Mid-America American Neptune and Diplomatic History. Garry has served on the editorial board of Diplomatic History as well as on the editorial board of the Modern War Series of the University Press of Kansas. He is currently writing a book on FDR and American intervention in World War II. Kenneth J. Hagan is a professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College Monterey Program and professor of history and museum director emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis. He previously taught at Claremont McKenna College Kansas State University and as an adjunct at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. A native of California he received his A.B. and M.A. from the University of California Berkeley (1958 1964) and his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University (1970). Ken is the author of This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power (1991) a comprehensive history of American naval strategy and policy since the Revolution American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy 18771889 (1973) and co-author with Ian J. Bickerton of Unintended Consequences: The United States at War (2007) a critical reassessment of ten American wars from the American Revolution to Iraq. His scholarship also includes two edited collections of original essays: In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval History 30th Anniversary Edition (2008) and with William Roberts Against All Enemies: Interpretations of American Military History from Colonial Times to the Present (1986). He has lectured on the history of U.S. naval strategy at the Canadian Forces College the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and the U.S. National War College. Ken has given papers on naval and diplomatic history at professional meetings in Sweden Greece Turkey France Spain and the United Kingdom. In 2006 and 2007 he spoke on naval history at conferences hosted by the Royal Australian Navy in Sydney and Canberra. In 2007 and 2008 he discussed the unintended consequences of war at Oxford University and at Strathclyde University in Glasgow Scotland. For thirty years he has advised the Naval ROTC college program on its naval history course. Deborah Kisatsky is associate professor of history at Assumption College in Worcester Massachusetts. Born in Pennsylvania she earned her B.A. (1990) and Ph.D. (2001) from the University of Connecticut. Deborah published The United States and the European Right 19451955 with Ohio State University Press in 2005. She has also published in The American Historical Review Intelligence and National Security The Historian Presidential Studies Quarterly The Journal of Interdisciplinary History and the Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. Deborah has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation the Center for European Integration Studies (University of Bonn) the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and the Harry S. Truman Institute. She is currently writing a book about the life thought and transnational legacy of the nineteenth-century communitarian and social radical Adin Ballou. Shane J. Maddock is professor of history at Stonehill College in Easton Massachusetts where he also serves on the faculty of the Martin Institute for Law and Society. Born in North Dakota he earned his B.A. from Michigan State University (1989) and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut (1997). He also taught at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Shane edited The Nuclear Age (2001) and contributed a chapter to G. Kurt Piehler and Rosemary Mariner eds. The Atomic Bomb and American Society (2008). He has also published in the Journal of American History International History Review Pacific Historical Review New England Journal of History Presidential Studies Quarterly Mid-America Journal of Military History American Jewish History Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies History in Dispute and Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. He received fellowships from the Institute for the Study of World Politics the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Hoover Truman Eisenhower Kennedy and Johnson presidential libraries. His book Nuclear Apartheid: The American Quest for Atomic Supremacy will be published by University of North Carolina Press.