Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1886, May 19 | Born, Strasburg, Va. |
1904 | A.B., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. |
1905 | Appointed Rhodes Scholar from Tennessee |
1908 | B.A., Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England |
1910 | Ph. D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. |
1910-1925 | Instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of history at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio |
1913 | M.A., Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England |
1925-1946 | Professor (1925-1939) and Andrew MacLeish distinguished service professor (1939-1946) of modern history |
1929-1946 | Editor,Journal of Modern History |
1930 | Published The Coming of the War, 1914. New York: Scribner’s Sons. 2 vols. Awarded George Louis Beer Prize |
1931 | Awarded Pulitzer Prize for History |
1936-1947 | Co-editor,Cambridge Modern History (New Series) |
1939 | Married Damaris K. Ames |
1943 | Special consultant to secretary of war |
1943-1945 | With Office of Strategic Services |
1945 | Special adviser to the secretary general, United Nations Conference on International Organization |
1945-1949 | Special adviser, Division of Historical Policy Research, Department of State |
1949-1952 | Chief, German War Documents Project, Department of State |
1960 | President, American Historical Association |
1969, Mar. 22 | Died, Alexandria, Va. |