Robin Higham

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Robin David Stewart Higham (born June 20, 1925 in London , † August 27, 2015 in Manhattan , Kansas ) was an American historian, especially aviation and military historian. He was a professor at Kansas State University .

Life

Higham has a British father (the literary agent David Higham) and an American mother and grew up in London (but visited relatives in the United States with his mother in 1929 and 1935) before his parents sent him to the United States in 1940. From 1943 to 1947 he served as a pilot and flight sergeant in the Canadian Royal Air Force in Europe and Asia (Burma Road). He graduated from the University of New Hampshire and Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1950 cum laude . In 1953 he received his masters degree from the Claremont Graduate School and was an instructor at the University of Massachusetts from 1954 to 1957 . Higham received his PhD from Harvard in 1957 with a dissertation on the development of aviation in Great Britain. He was then an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina , where he co-founded the National Security Seminar of Duke University and the University of North Carolina. In 1963 he became a professor at Kansas State University. In 1999 he retired.

He published on aviation, especially under military science aspects, but also on geopolitics in general.

In 1985 he received the first Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for his life's work, in 1983 the Victor Gondos Award and in 2000 the Governor of Kansas Prize for Aviation 1968 to 1988. He was the editor of Military Affairs (now the Journal of Military History), was the editor of the Journal of the West and from 1970 to 1988 by Aerospace Historian . In 1977 he founded Sunflower University Press, which existed until 2005 and published military science works.

He has been married to Barbara Davies since 1950 and has one son and three daughters. He lived in Manhattan, Kansas . He has been a US citizen since 1954.

Fonts (selection)

  • Introduction to military, naval and aeronautical history 1960
  • Airpower. A concise history, 1972, 1988
  • 100 years of air power and aviation, 2003
  • Britains imperial air routes 1918-1933: the story of Britain's overseas airlines, 1960
  • British rigid airship, 1961, reissued in 1975 as British rigid airship 1918-1933: a study in weapons policy
  • Military intellectuals in Britain 1918-1939, 1966
  • Diary of a disaster: British aid to Greece 1940-1941, 1986
  • Published in: Guide to the sources of British military history, 1971
  • Editor: Guide to the sources of US military history, Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books 1975 (various supplements subsequently)
  • Complete academic. An informal guide to the ivory tower, 1974
  • Editor: Writing of official military history 1999
  • Publisher: Flying American Combat Aircraft, WW II 1939-1945, Mechanicsburg, Stackpole Books 2004
  • Editor: Flying American Combat Aircraft, the Cold War, Stackpole Books 2005
  • Editor with Abigail T. Siddall: Flying combat aircraft of the USAAF-USAF, 3 volumes, Iowa State University Press 1975-1978
  • Editor with Mark Parillo: Influence of airpower upon history: statesmanship, diplomacy, and foreign policy since 1903, University Press of Kentucky 2013
  • Editor: Intervention or abstention: the dilemma of American foreign polics, University of Kentucky Press 1975
  • Editor with Jacob W. Kipp: Soviet aviation and air power: a historical view, Brassey's, Westview Press 1978
  • Editor with Stephen J. Harris: Why air forces fail: the anatomy of defeat, University of Kentucky Press 2006
  • Speedbird: the complete history of BOAC, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Robin DS Higham - Obituary - Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home. In: www.ymlfuneralhome.com. Retrieved November 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ But also other historical works, e.g. Higham, George E. Ham (Eds.) The Rise of the wheat state: a history of Kansas agriculture, 1861-1986 , 1987
personal data
SURNAME Higham, Robin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Higham, Robin David Stewart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, specifically aviation and military historians
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2015
Place of death Manhattan (Kansas)