Randall Bennett Woods

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Randall Bennett Woods (born October 10, 1944 ) is an American historian. His research focus is on the history of the United States , as well as its foreign policy and external relations from a historical perspective.

Life

Woods graduated from the University of Texas at Austin . There he received in 1967 a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 a Master of Arts and in 1972 a Ph.D. After receiving his doctorate , Woods began teaching at the University of Arkansas , from 1972 to 1977 as Assistant Professor , from 1977 to 1979 as Associate Professor, from 1979 to 1995 as Professor, and since 1995 as Distinguished Professor . Woods has held the chair of the John A. Cooper Professor of History since 1984 .

Woods was Stanley Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College from 2009 to 2010 . From 2013 to 2014 he was the John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford .

His book Fulbright: A Biography received, among others, the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1996 . It was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award .

Publications (selection)

  • Randall Bennett Woods: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy Establishment and the Good Neighbor; Argentina and the United States, 1941-1945 (1979, University Press of Kansas)
  • Randall Bennett Woods: A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller and the Promise of American Life, 1878-1900 (1981, University Press of Kansas)
  • Randall Bennett Woods: A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946 (1990, University of North Carolina Press)
  • Howard Jones, Randall Bennett Woods: The Dawning of the Cold War: America's Quest for Order, 1945-1950 (1991, University of Georgia Press)
  • Randall Bennett Woods: Fulbright: A Biography (1995, Cambridge University Press)
  • Willard B. Gatewood, Randall Bennett Woods: America Interpreted: A Concise History with Readings (1996, 2 volumes, Harcourt-Brace)
  • Randall Bennett Woods: J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy (1998, Cambridge University Press)
  • Randall Bennett Woods [Ed.]: Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of Dissent (2003, Cambridge University Press)
  • Randall Bennett Woods: Quest for Identity: America Since 1945 (2004, Cambridge University Press)
  • David Edwin Harrell Jr., Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith, Randall M. Miller, Randall Bennett Woods: Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People (2005, Eerdman's)
  • Randall Bennett Woods: LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (2006, Free Press / Simon and Schuster)
  • Randall Bennett Woods: Shadow Warrior: William E. Colby and the CIA (2013, Basic Books)

Web links

  • Biography on the University of Arkansas website

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy , Williams College website
  2. ^ John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government , Rothermere American Institute website
personal data
SURNAME Woods, Randall Bennett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1944