Ira D. Gruber

Ira Dempsey Gruber (born January 6, 1934 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American military historian . He was a professor at Rice University .

Gruber studied at Duke University with a bachelor's degree in 1955, a master's degree in 1959 and a doctorate in 1961. In between he was an encryption officer in the United States Navy on the USS Wiltsie from 1955 to 1957 . In 1961/62 he was an instructor at Duke University and from 1962 to 1965 as a fellow at the Institute for Early American History and Culture . In 1965 he became an assistant professor at Occidental College and in 1966 at Rice University, where he became an associate professor in 1968 and a full professorship in 1974. From 1968 to 1973 he was there Master of the Hanszen College . From 1983 to 1987 he headed the history faculty there. He became Harris Masterson Jr. Professor in 1984 and retired in 2008.

He dealt with the American Revolutionary War and the British Army of the time. 1979/80 he was Morrison Professor at Army General Staff College and 1984/85 and 1992/93 visiting professor at the United States Military Academy . In 2013 he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize .

Fonts (selection)

• The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution, New York: Atheneum 1972, Norton 1975 (on Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe , William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe )
• with Roy K. Flint, Robert A. Doughty : Warfare in the western world, Volume 1, Military operations from 1600 to 1871, Lexington, Massachusetts: DC Heath 1996.
• Publisher: John Peebles´American War. The diary of a Scottish grenadier, 1776–1782, Army Records Society, Mechanicsburg: Stackpole 1998.
• Books and the british army in the age of revolution, University of North Carolina Press 2010.

Web links

• Homepage at Rice University
• Gruber Papers, University of Texas