Melvin Small
Melvin Small (born March 14, 1939 in New York City) is an American academic working as a distinguished professor emeritus of history at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Melvin Small | |
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| Born | March 14, 1939 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College (BA) University of Michigan (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Post-war era American foreign policy Public opinion Vietnam War Antiwar movement |
| Institutions | Wayne State University |
Education edit
Small earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1960 and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1965.
Career edit
He taught at Wayne State University from 1965 to 2010 and was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Marygrove College, the University of Windsor (Canada) and Aarhus University (Denmark). In 1969–1970, he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Small has concentrated his research and writing on the post-war era, with an emphasis on the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, and presidents Johnson and Nixon. A historian of American foreign policy, he studies public opinion, domestic politics and foreign policy, a subject reflected in his monographs and several theoretical articles. He was a co-investigator on the quantitative IR project, the Correlates of War, WSU's NCAA faculty advisor, and department chair. He also worked as a restaurant reviewer for the Metro Times.[1]
A former president of the Peace History Society, Small has written or edited fifteen books, including Johnson, Nixon and the Doves (1988), Democracy and Diplomacy (1996), The Presidency of Richard Nixon (1999), Antiwarriors (2002), and At the Water's Edge (2005).[2][3][4][5]
References edit
- ^ "Antiwarriors – Melvin Small". Douglas I. Bell. 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
- ^ . Wayne State University. Archived from the original on July 1, 2010. Retrieved 2023-04-07..
- ^ Mugleston, William F. (2005-03-22). "Melvin Small. Antiwarriors: the Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds". Teaching History: A Journal of Methods. 30 (1): 53–55.
- ^ "New Nixon Tapes Reveal Details of Meeting With Anti-War Activists". PBS NewsHour. 2011-11-25. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
- ^ Carroll, John Martin; Herring, George C. (1996). Modern American Diplomacy. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8420-2555-3.
External links edit
- Appearances on C-SPAN