Walter A. McDougall

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Walter Allan McDougall (born December 3, 1946 in Washington, DC ) is an American historian .

Life

McDougall attended New Trier Township High School in Winnetka , Illinois , where he graduated in 1964. He then studied at Amherst College , where he received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1968 . From 1968 to 1970 he served in the United States Army and served as an artillery sergeant in the Vietnam War . After retiring from the Army with an Honorable Discharge , he continued his studies at the University of Chicago . Here he received in 1971 a Master of Arts and doctorate in 1974 Ph.D.His doctoral supervisor was William Hardy McNeill .

From 1975, McDougall taught at the University of California, Berkeley , first from 1975 to 1983 as an assistant professor , then from 1983 to 1987 as an associate professor and finally from 1987 to 1988 as a full professor. In 1988 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania , where he has been a professor of history ever since. He also holds the chair of the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations .

In 1986 and again in 1991 he was a Resident Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University . For his book ... the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age , he received the Pulitzer Prize for History in April 1986 . In October 1986, he received the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology . In May 1998 he was elected to the Society of American Historians .

McDougall is married with two children.

Publications (selection)

  • France's Rhineland Diplomacy, 1914-1924. The last bid for a Balance of Power in Europe. Princeton University Press , Princeton NJ 1978, ISBN 0-691-05268-9 .
  • as editor with Paul Seabury: The Grenada Papers. Institute for Contemporary Studies, San Francisco CA 1984, ISBN 0-917616-68-5 .
  • ... the Heavens and the Earth. A Political History of the Space Age. Basic Books, New York NY 1985, ISBN 0-465-02888-8 .
  • Let the sea make a noise. A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur. Basic Books, New York NY 1993, ISBN 0-465-05152-9 .
  • Promised Land, Crusader State. The American Encounter with the World since 1776. Houghton Mifflin , Boston MA et al. 1997, ISBN 0-395-90132-4 .
  • Freedom just around the corner. A New American History, 1585-1828. HarperCollins , New York NY 2004, ISBN 0-06-019789-7 .
  • Throes of Democracy. The American Civil War era, 1829-1877. HarperCollins, New York NY 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-056751-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME McDougall, Walter A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDougall, Walter Allan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC