John H. Morrow Jr.

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John Howard Morrow junior (born May 27, 1944 in Trenton , New Jersey ) is an American modern and military historian .

His father John H. Morrow (1910-2000) was an American diplomat , the first US ambassador to Guinea after its independence and the first US ambassador to UNESCO (at a time when African-Americans were rare in the diplomatic service). His uncle E. Frederic Morrow (1909-1994) was the first African American to hold an administrative position in the White House .

John Howard Morrow studied history at Swarthmore College with a bachelor's degree and was at the 1971 University of Pennsylvania doctorate. He then taught at the University of Tennessee , where he headed the history department from 1983 to 1988. From 1988 he was a Franklin Professor at the University of Georgia .

In 1988/89 he was Charles Lindbergh Visiting Professor at the National Air and Space Museum and in 2005 Visiting Professor at the US Military Academy in West Point . He also taught at the National War College and Air War College.

He dealt with aerial warfare in World War I and specifically the history of the German Air Force in World War I. He also wrote a story with Jeffrey Sammons of the 369th African American Infantry Regiment in World War I, the so-called Harlem Hellfighters or Black Rattlers because of their origin from Harlem . He also published a World War I history examining the conflict from a global perspective within the framework of imperialism.

In 2019 he received the lavish Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing .

Fonts

  • with Jeffrey T. Sammons: Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality , University Press of Kansas 2014
  • as editor with Earl Rogers: A Yankee Ace in the RAF. The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers , University Press of Kansas 1996
  • The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921 , Smithsonian History of Aviation Series, 1993
  • German Airpower in World War I , University of Nebraska Press 1982
  • Building German Airpower 1909–1914 , University of Tennessee Press, 1976
  • The Great War: An Imperial History , Routledge 2003

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SURNAME Morrow, John H. Junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morrow, John Howard Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Trenton, New Jersey