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Robert Hugh Ferrell

August 25, 2023

For persons of a similar name, see Robert Farrell (disambiguation).

Robert Hugh Ferrell (May 8, 1921 – August 8, 2018)[3] was an American historian and a prolific author or editor of more than 60 books on a wide range of topics, including the U.S. presidency, World War I, and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy. One of the country's leading historians,[4] Ferrell was widely considered the preeminent authority on the administration of Harry S. Truman,[5] and also wrote books about half a dozen other 20th-century presidents. He was thought by many in the field to be the "dean of American diplomatic historians", a title he disavowed.[6]

Robert Hugh Ferrell
Born(1921-05-08)May 8, 1921
Cleveland, Ohio, US
DiedAugust 8, 2018(2018-08-08) (aged 97)
Chelsea, Michigan, US
NationalityAmerican
SpouseLila Sprout Ferrell[2]
Children1[2]
AwardsJohn Addison Porter Prize, George Louis Beer Prize
Academic background
Alma materBowling Green State University, Yale University
ThesisThe United States and the Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1951)
Doctoral advisorSamuel Flagg Bemis
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineU.S. foreign relations, U.S. political and military history, Harry S. Truman, World War I
InstitutionsIndiana University
Doctoral studentsEugene P. Trani, Ross Gregory, Melvin Goodman,[1] Arnold A. Offner, John Garry Clifford
Notable worksPeace in Their Time, Harry S. Truman: A Life, Dear Bess, Choosing Truman, Ill-Advised, The Dying President, Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman

Early life and education Edit

Ferrell was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1921 to Ernest and Edna Ferrell. His mother was a schoolteacher; his father was a World War I veteran whose career as a banker kept the family moving throughout Ohio during the Great Depression.[5] The family settled in Waterville, Ohio, where Ferrell's father managed the First National Bank and Ferrell and his brother Ernest Jr. went to high school. The Ferrell home was located at 29 N. 4th Street.[7][8]

 
Reading list for a 1949 diplomatic history course given by Bemis, showing Ferrell as an assistant

A pianist, Ferrell studied music and education at Bowling Green State University in Ohio before serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War as a chaplain's assistant and staff sergeant.[5] His wartime experience in Europe compelled him to change his vocation to the study of history,[4] inspired also by reading the works of historian and fellow Ohioan Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Ida Tarbell, and Allan Nevins.[5] After the war, he received a B.S. in education from Bowling Green in 1946 and a second bachelor's degree in history in 1947.[4][9]

At Yale University, Ferrell earned a master's degree in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1951, working under the direction of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Samuel Flagg Bemis. A student of the Kellogg–Briand Pact, a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve their disputes, his dissertation The United States and the Origins of the Kellogg–Briand Pact,[10] won Yale's John Addison Porter Prize for original scholarship.[11]

Academic career Edit

A longer version of the dissertation became his first book, Peace in Their Time: The Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which went on to win the American Historical Association's 1952 George Louis Beer Prize.[12] "This may not be the last book on the subject, but it should be," wrote historian Richard W. Leopold of Northwestern University.[3]

Ferrell was an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Air Force in Washington, D.C., during the Korean War. After leaving the Air Force, he taught at Michigan State in 1952–53.[2] He then moved to Indiana University in Bloomington, where he taught for many years, starting as an assistant professor in 1953 and rising to distinguished professor of history in 1974. He held several notable visiting professorships, including Yale in 1955–56 and the University of Cairo in 1958–59, the universities of South Carolina, Wisconsin and Nebraska in the late 1950s, and the Naval War College in 1974.[6]

In 1971, he was elected the fourth president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).[13] He made nine appearances on C-SPAN to discuss his books and historical events,[14] and was a featured expert in the History Channel's 2005 documentary series The Presidents.[15] In a 2000 Chicago Sun-Times article, Ferrell ranked Abraham Lincoln, Truman and George Washington as the three best presidents in history.[4]

Teaching and academic legacy Edit

Ferrell considered teaching a core part of his career, and worked to improve the quality of history teaching in general. In 1964, working with Maurice Glen Baxter and John E. Wiltz, he conducted a thorough survey of every high-school history teacher and school librarian in Indiana, writing up their findings along with detailed suggestions to help unprepared teachers in the 1964 book The Teaching of American History in High Schools.[16][17][18]

He supervised 35 Ph.D. students from 1961 to 1988.[19] Many of his students became history professors themselves. His students, both Ph.D. and otherwise, included Eugene P. Trani, former president of Virginia Commonwealth University; American Spectator founder Emmett Tyrrell;[20] William B. Pickett, a professor emeritus of history at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana[5] and author of Eisenhower Decides To Run; historian and author Arnold A. Offner, past president of SHAFR; Reginald Horsman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor and author of Race and Manifest Destiny;[6][21] Terry H. Anderson, history professor at Texas A&M University and author of The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action;[22] Ross Gregory, history professor at Western Michigan University and author of Walter Hines Page: Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s; national security and intelligence expert Melvin Goodman, author of Whistleblower at the CIA; Theodore A. Wilson, history professor at the University of Kansas and author of The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941;[23] and John Garry Clifford, professor of political science at the University of Connecticut.

After his 1988 retirement, SHAFR named the annual Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize in his honor for distinguished scholarship in the field.[24] More than a dozen of his former students, all historians in their own right, compiled the book Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals: Essays Honoring Robert H. Ferrell to recognize his achievements in the field.[18]

Published works Edit

Ferrell wrote prolifically, sharing with Bemis a disapproval of what they called "one-book men" who stopped writing after finishing a Ph.D. dissertation.[3] He published 25 books before his 1988 retirement from teaching, and before his death had produced more than 60. His prose was "expressed with grace and economy, [and] a light wit," wrote historian Lawrence Kaplan.[18] After the publication of Peace in Their Time, his early works included influential history textbooks American Diplomacy in the Great Depression and American Diplomacy: A History, the latter of which was republished in expanded and revised editions three times in the ensuing decades. He continued to work closely with his mentor Bemis, co-editing the later volumes of the series American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy which Bemis had begun in the 1920s, and also writing the entries on Frank B. Kellogg, Henry L. Stimson, and George Marshall. He helped edit Bemis' Pulitzer-winning 1949 biography, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, and catalyzed the publication of a 1957 paperback edition of Bemis' The Diplomacy of the American Revolution.[25][6]

Ferrell was also notable for the thoroughness and depth of his research, with a knack for finding obscure or unpublished diaries, memoirs, and letters which would then become central elements of his books, such as the papers of Coolidge-era assistant secretary of state William Castle, which greatly informed Peace in Their Time. Editing and publishing the diaries and private letters of persons of historical interest, from presidents to ordinary soldiers, became a specialty of his, with nearly two dozen such books to his name, including presidents Truman, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge (and his wife Grace) and Dwight Eisenhower, White House staffers James Hagerty, Frank Comerford Walker, Arthur F. Burns and Eben Ayers, and soldiers in the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Spanish–American War, and the Mexican–American War.

Not content to be a passive chronicler of history, Ferrell would often, when he felt a topic merited it, engage in spirited critique of other historians' interpretations of past events.[18] In the influential 1955 article "Pearl Harbor and the Revisionists," he argued against the conspiracy theory that Franklin Roosevelt had deliberately allowed Japan to commit the surprise attack that drew the U.S. into World War II.[26] His book Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists argued against post-1960s New Left historians' critiques of the Truman era.[3][27] Reactions to the book were divided: Writing for Michigan State University's H-Net, Curt Cardwell felt that Ferrell misunderstood the arguments of the younger generation he criticized and was "condescending,"[28] while Alonzo L. Hamby's review in Journal of Cold War Studies called the book "restrained and gentlemanly" and noted that Ferrell viewed prominent revisionist William Appleman Williams as a friend.[29] In a 1995 article in American Heritage, he accused Merle Miller, author of the bestselling book Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry. S. Truman, of fabricating many of the quotes attributed to Truman.[30][31] In 1998's The Dying President, Ferrell examined Franklin D. Roosevelt's medical records and concluded that Roosevelt had deliberately chosen to keep the cardiovascular disease which would soon kill him secret from the public. The book was praised by historian John Lukacs as “painstaking and exceptionally researched … sparklingly well-written, bearing the marks of a master historian” and one of the most important books on Roosevelt by any historian.[32]

Harry S. Truman Edit

Ferrell wrote voluminously on Truman, devoting more than a dozen books to his life and presidency. Ferrell's work rehabilitated the reputation of the Truman presidency, which had been previously considered a failure by scholars, by providing evidence of how decisions such as Truman's choice to champion the Marshall Plan led to the successful establishment of an American-led post-war world order.[4] Although it was overshadowed by the popular success of David McCullough's Pulitzer-winning Truman biography, Ferrell's 1994 Harry S. Truman: A Life was considered a masterwork by scholars in his field. Historian Lawrence Kaplan called it "the height of his achievement," with far more detailed analysis than McCullough's book.[18]

Ferrell's discovery of a cache of hundreds of letters from Truman to his wife, previously thought to have been burned, led to his 1983 book Dear Bess: The Letters From Harry to Bess Truman, 1910–1959,[4] a New York Times bestseller.[33]

Coincidentally, Ferrell and Truman were born on the same day, May 8.[4]

World War I Edit

World War I was a special interest of Ferrell's—in particular the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest and bloodiest U.S. operation of the war, in which Ferrell's father and then-Capt. Harry Truman both served. His books on the conflict include America's Deadliest Battle, Collapse at Meuse-Argonne, and a profile of the American Expeditionary Forces' only African-American division, Unjustly Dishonored, as well as several edited memoirs of soldiers who served in it. One of his final books, 2008's The Question of MacArthur's Reputation, painstakingly reconstructed the events of the Meuse-Argonne, a victory which helped launch the career of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, to prove that MacArthur had lied about his role in the battle to embellish his prestige and take undeserved credit.[34]

Awards Edit

In addition to the John Addison Porter Prize and George Louis Beer Prize for his early work on the Kellogg-Briand Pact, Ferrell received the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Norman and Laura Graebner Award in 1998, which recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement by a senior historian of United States foreign relations.[35] In 2002, Ferrell was given the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award for editing a trio of memoirs by soldier William S. Triplet, A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne, A Colonel in the Armored Divisions, and In the Philippines and Okinawa.[36]

Personal life and death Edit

His wife, Lila, died in 2002.[5] They had a daughter, Carolyn.[2][37]: vii [38]: xi  He was an inveterate collector of books, owning more than 10,000 volumes.[3]

He died of heart disease in Chelsea, Michigan at age 97.[4]

Ferrell's papers, writings and correspondence, comprising 200,000 items, are archived at Indiana University's Lilly Library.[39]

Bibliography Edit

External video
  Booknotes interview with Ferrell on The Strange Deaths of President Harding, January 12, 1997, C-SPAN
  Presentation by Ferrell on Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion, May 14, 2005, C-SPAN
  Lecture by Ferrell: Illness and Death of President F. Roosevelt, Oct. 30, 1996, C-SPAN
  Lecture by Ferrell: Chief Justice John Jay's Legacy, Dec. 12, 1995, C-SPAN
  Ashbrook Colloquium presentation by Ferrell: Good Fortune in Politics: The Case of Calvin Coolidge, Jan. 28, 2005
  Organization of American Historians panel on Truman biographies, including Robert Ferrell's Harry S. Truman: A Life, Alonzo Hamby's Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman and David McCullough's Truman.", C-SPAN

As primary author Edit

  • Peace in Their Time: The Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1952)[Subject matter: The Kellogg-Briand Pact][40]
  • "Pearl Harbor and the Revisionists" in The Historian (Spring 1955)[26]
  • "The Mukden Incident: September 18–19, 1931" in Journal of Modern History (March 1955) [41]
  • American Diplomacy in the Great Depression: Hoover-Stimson Foreign Policy, 1929–1933 (1957)[42]
  • American Diplomacy: A History (1959, with updated editions in 1969, 1975, and 1987)[43]
  • The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy (edited volumes 11-19, 1958–1980);[44] wrote Vol. 11, Frank B. Kellogg and Henry L. Stimson (1963)[Subject matter: Frank B. Kellogg, Henry L. Stimson][45] and Vol. 15, George C. Marshall[46]
  • Maurice Glen Baxter, Robert H. Ferrell, and John E. Wiltz, The Teaching of American History in High Schools (1964)[16]
  • Richard B. Morris, William Greenleaf and Robert H. Ferrell, America: A History of the People (1971)[47]
  • Samuel F. Wells, Jr., Robert H. Ferrell, and David F. Trask, The Ordeal of World Power: American Diplomacy Since 1900 (1975)[48]
  • Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency (1983)[49]
  • Truman: A Centenary Remembrance, 1884–1972 (1984)[50]
  • Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917–1921 (New American Nation Series, 1985)[51]
  • "Truman's Place in History" in Reviews in American History (March 1990)[52]
  • Harry S. Truman: His Life On the Family Farms (1991)[53]
  • Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust (1992)[54]
  • Choosing Truman: The Democratic Convention of 1944 (1994)[Subject matter: 1944 Democratic National Convention][55]
  • Harry S. Truman: A Life (1994)[56]
  • Francis H. Heller and Robert H. Ferrell, "Plain Faking?" in American Heritage (May–June 1995)[30]
  • The Strange Deaths of President Harding (1996)[57]
  • Atlas of American History (1996, with Richard Natkiel)[58]
  • The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944–1945 (1998)[59]
  • The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge (1998)[60]
  • Truman and Pendergast (1999)[61]
  • Harry S. Truman (American Presidents Reference Series, 2002)[62]
  • Collapse at Meuse-Argonne: The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division (2004)[63]
  • "A Tale of Two Archives" in Topic: The Washington & Jefferson College Review, vol. 54, "A Festschrift for Professor Walter S. Sanderlin" (2004)[64]
  • Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I (2005)[Subject matter: Lost Battalion (World War I)][65]
  • Good Fortune in Politics: The Case of Calvin Coolidge (Ashbrook Colloquium, 2005)[66]
  • Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists (2006)[27]
  • Presidential Leadership: From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman (2006)[67]
  • "Immigration and the Red Scare" in Who Belongs in America?: Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration (2006)[68]
  • America's Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (2007)[2]
  • The Question of MacArthur's Reputation: Côte de Châtillon, October 14–16, 1918 (2008)[69]
  • Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House (2008)[70]
  • Unjustly Dishonored: An African American Division in World War I (2011)[38]

As editor Edit

  • Conference of Scholars on the European Recovery Program, March 20–21, 1964, at the Harry S. Truman Library (Transcript of discussion led by Robert H. Ferrell, 1964)[71]
  • Calvin Coolidge, The Talkative President: The Off-the-Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge (1964)[72]
  • Foundations of American Diplomacy, 1775–1872 (1968)[73]
  • America As a World Power: 1872–1945 (1971)[74]
  • America In a Divided World, 1945–1972 (1975)[75]
  • Harry S. Truman, Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980)[76]
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Eisenhower Diaries (1981)[77]
  • Harry S. Truman, Dear Bess: The Letters From Harry to Bess Truman, 1910–1959 (1983)[78]
  • James Hagerty, The Diary of James C. Hagerty: Eisenhower in Mid-Course, 1954–1955 (1983)[79]
  • Joseph Douglas Lawrence, Fighting Soldier: The AEF in 1918 (1985)[80]
  • Curtis V. Hard, Banners In the Air: The Eighth Ohio Volunteers and the Spanish–American War (1988)[81]
  • Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Monterrey Is Ours!: The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Dana, 1845-1847 (1990)[82]
  • Truman in the White House: The Diary of Eben A. Ayers (1991)[83]
  • Grace Coolidge, Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography (1992)[84]
  • Flavel C. Barber, Holding the Line: The Third Tennessee Infantry, 1861–1864 (1994)[85]
  • The Twentieth Century: An Almanac (1995)[86]
  • Harry S. Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History (1996)[87]
  • Frank C. Walker, FDR's Quiet Confidant: The Autobiography of Frank C. Walker (1997)[88]
  • Rudolph H. Hartmann, The Kansas City Investigation: Pendergast's Downfall, 1938–1939 (1999)[89]
  • William S. Triplet, A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917–1918 (2000)[90]
  • William S. Triplet, A Colonel in the Armored Divisions: A Memoir, 1941–1945 (2001)[91]
  • William S. Triplet, In the Philippines and Okinawa: A Memoir, 1945–1948 (2001)[92]
  • The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman (2002) [93]
  • Elmer W. Sherwood, A Soldier in World War I: The Diary of Elmer W. Sherwood (2004)[94]
  • Hugh S. Thompson, Trench Knives and Mustard Gas: With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France (C. A. Brannen Series, No. 6) (2004)[95]
  • William M. Wright, Meuse-Argonne Diary: A Division Commander in World War I (2004)[96]
  • Horace Leonard Baker, Argonne Days in World War I (2007)[97]
  • Pierpont L. Stackpole, In the Company of Generals: The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole (2009)[98]
  • Arthur F. Burns, Inside the Nixon Administration: The Secret Diary of Arthur Burns, 1969–1974 (2010)[99]
  • Conrad S. Babcock, Reminiscences of Conrad S. Babcock: The Old U.S. Army and the New, 1898–1918 (2012)[37]

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  60. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (1998). The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0892-8. LCCN 97051128.
  61. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (1999). Truman and Pendergast. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6050-5. LCCN 99012736.
  62. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (2003). Harry S. Truman. American Presidents Reference Series. CQ Press. ISBN 978-1568027661. LCCN 2003020520.
  63. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (2004). Collapse at Meuse-Argonne: The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6239-4. LCCN 2004004300.
  64. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (2004). Thomas Mainwaring (ed.). "A Tale of Two Archives". Topic: The Washington & Jefferson College Review. Washington & Jefferson College. 53 (A Festschrift for Professor Walter S. Sanderlin). ISSN 0049-4127.
  65. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (2005). Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6479-4. LCCN 2005001231.
  66. ^ Robert H. Ferrell (2005-01-28). Good Fortune in Politics: The Case of Calvin Coolidge (Ashbrook Colloquium) (Audio). Ashland, Ohio: Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  67. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (2006). Presidential Leadership: From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6490-9. LCCN 2005023511.
  68. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (11 July 2006). "Immigration and the Red Scare". In Beasley, Vanessa B. (ed.). Who Belongs in America?: Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 134–148. ISBN 978-1-58544-505-9.
  69. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (2008). The Question of MacArthur's Reputation: Côte de Châtillon, October 14-16, 1918. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6651-4.
  70. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (2008). Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House. ISBN 9780700615636. LCCN 2007045737.
  71. ^ Ferrell, Robert H., ed. (1964). Conference of Scholars on the European Recovery Program, March 20-21, 1964, at the Harry S. Truman Library. Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs. LCCN 82232436.
  72. ^ Calvin Coolidge (1964). Ferrell, Robert H.; Quint, Howard H. (eds.). The Talkative President: The Off-the-Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge. Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0824097059. LCCN 78066526.
  73. ^ Ferrell, Robert H., ed. (1968). Foundations of American Diplomacy, 1775–1872. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9780872491229. LCCN 72001652.
  74. ^ Ferrell, Robert H., ed. (1971). America As a World Power: 1872–1945. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-87249-244-8. LCCN 73154053.
  75. ^ Ferrell, Robert H., ed. (1975). America In a Divided World, 1945–1972. Harper & Row. LCCN 74007602.
  76. ^ Truman, Harry S. (1980). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-8262-1119-4.
  77. ^ Dwight D. Eisenhower (1981). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). The Eisenhower Diaries. Norton. LCCN 80027866.
  78. ^ Truman, Harry S. (1983). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Dear Bess: The Letters From Harry to Bess Truman, 1910–1959. Norton. ISBN 978-0-8262-1203-0.
  79. ^ James Campbell Hagerty (1983). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). The Diary of James C. Hagerty: Eisenhower in Mid-Course, 1954–1955. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253116253.
  80. ^ Joseph Douglas Lawrence (1985). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Fighting Soldier: The AEF in 1918. Colorado Associated University Press. ISBN 978-0-87081-158-6.
  81. ^ Hard, Curtis V. (1988). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Banners In the Air: The Eighth Ohio Volunteers and the Spanish–American War. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0873383677. LCCN 88012033.
  82. ^ Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh (1990). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Monterrey Is Ours!: The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Dana, 1845-1847. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0813117034. LCCN 89029351.
  83. ^ Eben A. Ayers (1991). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Truman in the White House: The Diary of Eben A. Ayers. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-0790-6.
  84. ^ Grace Coolidge (1992). Wikander, Lawrence E.; Ferrell, Robert H. (eds.). Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography. High Plains Pub. Co. ISBN 978-1881019015. LCCN 92072825.
  85. ^ Flavel C. Barber (1994). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Holding the Line: The Third Tennessee Infantry, 1861–1864. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0873385046. LCCN 94008653.
  86. ^ Ferrell, Robert H. (1985). Ferrell, Robert H.; Bowman, John S. (eds.). The Twentieth Century: An Almanac. World Almanac Publications. ISBN 978-0-345-32630-0. LCCN 83051725.
  87. ^ Ferrell, Robert H., ed. (1996). Harry S. Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History. High Plains Pub. Co. ISBN 978-1881019121. LCCN 96075053.
  88. ^ Walker, Frank Comerford (1997). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). FDR's Quiet Confidant: The Autobiography of Frank C. Walker. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 978-0870813979. LCCN 96054006.
  89. ^ Hartmann, Rudolph H. (1999). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). The Kansas City Investigation: Pendergast's Downfall, 1938–1939. University of Missouri Press. LCCN 99018273.
  90. ^ Triplet, William S. (2000). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917–1918. University of Missouri Press. LCCN 00029921.
  91. ^ Triplet, William S. (2001). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). A Colonel in the Armored Divisions: A Memoir, 1941–1945. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0826213129. LCCN 00050781.
  92. ^ Triplet, William S. (2001). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). In the Philippines and Okinawa: A Memoir, 1945–1948. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0826213358. LCCN 2001027551.
  93. ^ Truman, Harry S. (2002). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1445-4.
  94. ^ Elmer W. Sherwood (2004). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). A Soldier in World War I: The Diary of Elmer W. Sherwood. Indiana Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-87195-173-1. LCCN 2003069168.
  95. ^ Hugh S. Thompson (14 May 2004). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Trench Knives and Mustard Gas: With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-290-4. LCCN 2003019696.
  96. ^ William M. Wright (2004). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Meuse-Argonne Diary: A Division Commander in World War I. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0826215277. LCCN 2004001710.
  97. ^ Horace Leonard Baker (2007). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Argonne Days in World War I. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6575-3.
  98. ^ Pierpont L. Stackpole (2009). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). In the Company of Generals: The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826218704. LCCN 2009028219.
  99. ^ Arthur F. Burns (2010). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). Inside the Nixon Administration: The Secret Diary of Arthur Burns, 1969–1974. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700617302. LCCN 2010021333.

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robert, hugh, ferrell, persons, similar, name, robert, farrell, disambiguation, 1921, august, 2018, american, historian, prolific, author, editor, more, than, books, wide, range, topics, including, presidency, world, foreign, policy, diplomacy, country, leadin. For persons of a similar name see Robert Farrell disambiguation Robert Hugh Ferrell May 8 1921 August 8 2018 3 was an American historian and a prolific author or editor of more than 60 books on a wide range of topics including the U S presidency World War I and U S foreign policy and diplomacy One of the country s leading historians 4 Ferrell was widely considered the preeminent authority on the administration of Harry S Truman 5 and also wrote books about half a dozen other 20th century presidents He was thought by many in the field to be the dean of American diplomatic historians a title he disavowed 6 Robert Hugh FerrellBorn 1921 05 08 May 8 1921Cleveland Ohio USDiedAugust 8 2018 2018 08 08 aged 97 Chelsea Michigan USNationalityAmericanSpouseLila Sprout Ferrell 2 Children1 2 AwardsJohn Addison Porter Prize George Louis Beer PrizeAcademic backgroundAlma materBowling Green State University Yale UniversityThesisThe United States and the Origins of the Kellogg Briand Pact 1951 Doctoral advisorSamuel Flagg BemisAcademic workDisciplineHistorianSub disciplineU S foreign relations U S political and military history Harry S Truman World War IInstitutionsIndiana UniversityDoctoral studentsEugene P Trani Ross Gregory Melvin Goodman 1 Arnold A Offner John Garry CliffordNotable worksPeace in Their Time Harry S Truman A Life Dear Bess Choosing Truman Ill Advised The Dying President Off the Record The Private Papers of Harry S Truman Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Academic career 2 1 Teaching and academic legacy 3 Published works 3 1 Harry S Truman 3 2 World War I 4 Awards 5 Personal life and death 6 Bibliography 6 1 As primary author 6 2 As editor 7 References 8 External linksEarly life and education EditFerrell was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1921 to Ernest and Edna Ferrell His mother was a schoolteacher his father was a World War I veteran whose career as a banker kept the family moving throughout Ohio during the Great Depression 5 The family settled in Waterville Ohio where Ferrell s father managed the First National Bank and Ferrell and his brother Ernest Jr went to high school The Ferrell home was located at 29 N 4th Street 7 8 Reading list for a 1949 diplomatic history course given by Bemis showing Ferrell as an assistantA pianist Ferrell studied music and education at Bowling Green State University in Ohio before serving in the U S Army Air Forces during the Second World War as a chaplain s assistant and staff sergeant 5 His wartime experience in Europe compelled him to change his vocation to the study of history 4 inspired also by reading the works of historian and fellow Ohioan Arthur M Schlesinger Sr Ida Tarbell and Allan Nevins 5 After the war he received a B S in education from Bowling Green in 1946 and a second bachelor s degree in history in 1947 4 9 At Yale University Ferrell earned a master s degree in 1948 and a Ph D in 1951 working under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winning historian Samuel Flagg Bemis A student of the Kellogg Briand Pact a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve their disputes his dissertation The United States and the Origins of the Kellogg Briand Pact 10 won Yale s John Addison Porter Prize for original scholarship 11 Academic career EditA longer version of the dissertation became his first book Peace in Their Time The Origins of the Kellogg Briand Pact which went on to win the American Historical Association s 1952 George Louis Beer Prize 12 This may not be the last book on the subject but it should be wrote historian Richard W Leopold of Northwestern University 3 Ferrell was an intelligence analyst in the U S Air Force in Washington D C during the Korean War After leaving the Air Force he taught at Michigan State in 1952 53 2 He then moved to Indiana University in Bloomington where he taught for many years starting as an assistant professor in 1953 and rising to distinguished professor of history in 1974 He held several notable visiting professorships including Yale in 1955 56 and the University of Cairo in 1958 59 the universities of South Carolina Wisconsin and Nebraska in the late 1950s and the Naval War College in 1974 6 In 1971 he was elected the fourth president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations SHAFR 13 He made nine appearances on C SPAN to discuss his books and historical events 14 and was a featured expert in the History Channel s 2005 documentary series The Presidents 15 In a 2000 Chicago Sun Times article Ferrell ranked Abraham Lincoln Truman and George Washington as the three best presidents in history 4 Teaching and academic legacy Edit Ferrell considered teaching a core part of his career and worked to improve the quality of history teaching in general In 1964 working with Maurice Glen Baxter and John E Wiltz he conducted a thorough survey of every high school history teacher and school librarian in Indiana writing up their findings along with detailed suggestions to help unprepared teachers in the 1964 book The Teaching of American History in High Schools 16 17 18 He supervised 35 Ph D students from 1961 to 1988 19 Many of his students became history professors themselves His students both Ph D and otherwise included Eugene P Trani former president of Virginia Commonwealth University American Spectator founder Emmett Tyrrell 20 William B Pickett a professor emeritus of history at the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana 5 and author of Eisenhower Decides To Run historian and author Arnold A Offner past president of SHAFR Reginald Horsman University of Wisconsin Milwaukee professor and author of Race and Manifest Destiny 6 21 Terry H Anderson history professor at Texas A amp M University and author of The Pursuit of Fairness A History of Affirmative Action 22 Ross Gregory history professor at Western Michigan University and author of Walter Hines Page Ambassador to the Court of St James s national security and intelligence expert Melvin Goodman author of Whistleblower at the CIA Theodore A Wilson history professor at the University of Kansas and author of The First Summit Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay 1941 23 and John Garry Clifford professor of political science at the University of Connecticut After his 1988 retirement SHAFR named the annual Robert H Ferrell Book Prize in his honor for distinguished scholarship in the field 24 More than a dozen of his former students all historians in their own right compiled the book Presidents Diplomats and Other Mortals Essays Honoring Robert H Ferrell to recognize his achievements in the field 18 Published works EditFerrell wrote prolifically sharing with Bemis a disapproval of what they called one book men who stopped writing after finishing a Ph D dissertation 3 He published 25 books before his 1988 retirement from teaching and before his death had produced more than 60 His prose was expressed with grace and economy and a light wit wrote historian Lawrence Kaplan 18 After the publication of Peace in Their Time his early works included influential history textbooks American Diplomacy in the Great Depression and American Diplomacy A History the latter of which was republished in expanded and revised editions three times in the ensuing decades He continued to work closely with his mentor Bemis co editing the later volumes of the series American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy which Bemis had begun in the 1920s and also writing the entries on Frank B Kellogg Henry L Stimson and George Marshall He helped edit Bemis Pulitzer winning 1949 biography John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy and catalyzed the publication of a 1957 paperback edition of Bemis The Diplomacy of the American Revolution 25 6 Ferrell was also notable for the thoroughness and depth of his research with a knack for finding obscure or unpublished diaries memoirs and letters which would then become central elements of his books such as the papers of Coolidge era assistant secretary of state William Castle which greatly informed Peace in Their Time Editing and publishing the diaries and private letters of persons of historical interest from presidents to ordinary soldiers became a specialty of his with nearly two dozen such books to his name including presidents Truman Warren G Harding Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace and Dwight Eisenhower White House staffers James Hagerty Frank Comerford Walker Arthur F Burns and Eben Ayers and soldiers in the American Civil War World Wars I and II the Spanish American War and the Mexican American War Not content to be a passive chronicler of history Ferrell would often when he felt a topic merited it engage in spirited critique of other historians interpretations of past events 18 In the influential 1955 article Pearl Harbor and the Revisionists he argued against the conspiracy theory that Franklin Roosevelt had deliberately allowed Japan to commit the surprise attack that drew the U S into World War II 26 His book Harry S Truman and the Cold War Revisionists argued against post 1960s New Left historians critiques of the Truman era 3 27 Reactions to the book were divided Writing for Michigan State University s H Net Curt Cardwell felt that Ferrell misunderstood the arguments of the younger generation he criticized and was condescending 28 while Alonzo L Hamby s review in Journal of Cold War Studies called the book restrained and gentlemanly and noted that Ferrell viewed prominent revisionist William Appleman Williams as a friend 29 In a 1995 article in American Heritage he accused Merle Miller author of the bestselling book Plain Speaking An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman of fabricating many of the quotes attributed to Truman 30 31 In 1998 s The Dying President Ferrell examined Franklin D Roosevelt s medical records and concluded that Roosevelt had deliberately chosen to keep the cardiovascular disease which would soon kill him secret from the public The book was praised by historian John Lukacs as painstaking and exceptionally researched sparklingly well written bearing the marks of a master historian and one of the most important books on Roosevelt by any historian 32 Harry S Truman Edit Ferrell wrote voluminously on Truman devoting more than a dozen books to his life and presidency Ferrell s work rehabilitated the reputation of the Truman presidency which had been previously considered a failure by scholars by providing evidence of how decisions such as Truman s choice to champion the Marshall Plan led to the successful establishment of an American led post war world order 4 Although it was overshadowed by the popular success of David McCullough s Pulitzer winning Truman biography Ferrell s 1994 Harry S Truman A Life was considered a masterwork by scholars in his field Historian Lawrence Kaplan called it the height of his achievement with far more detailed analysis than McCullough s book 18 Ferrell s discovery of a cache of hundreds of letters from Truman to his wife previously thought to have been burned led to his 1983 book Dear Bess The Letters From Harry to Bess Truman 1910 1959 4 a New York Times bestseller 33 Coincidentally Ferrell and Truman were born on the same day May 8 4 World War I Edit World War I was a special interest of Ferrell s in particular the 1918 Meuse Argonne Offensive the largest and bloodiest U S operation of the war in which Ferrell s father and then Capt Harry Truman both served His books on the conflict include America s Deadliest Battle Collapse at Meuse Argonne and a profile of the American Expeditionary Forces only African American division Unjustly Dishonored as well as several edited memoirs of soldiers who served in it One of his final books 2008 s The Question of MacArthur s Reputation painstakingly reconstructed the events of the Meuse Argonne a victory which helped launch the career of Gen Douglas MacArthur to prove that MacArthur had lied about his role in the battle to embellish his prestige and take undeserved credit 34 Awards EditIn addition to the John Addison Porter Prize and George Louis Beer Prize for his early work on the Kellogg Briand Pact Ferrell received the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Norman and Laura Graebner Award in 1998 which recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement by a senior historian of United States foreign relations 35 In 2002 Ferrell was given the Society for Military History s Distinguished Book Award for editing a trio of memoirs by soldier William S Triplet A Youth in the Meuse Argonne A Colonel in the Armored Divisions and In the Philippines and Okinawa 36 Personal life and death EditHis wife Lila died in 2002 5 They had a daughter Carolyn 2 37 vii 38 xi He was an inveterate collector of books owning more than 10 000 volumes 3 He died of heart disease in Chelsea Michigan at age 97 4 Ferrell s papers writings and correspondence comprising 200 000 items are archived at Indiana University s Lilly Library 39 Bibliography EditExternal video Booknotes interview with Ferrell on The Strange Deaths of President Harding January 12 1997 C SPAN Presentation by Ferrell on Five Days in October The Lost Battalion May 14 2005 C SPAN Lecture by Ferrell Illness and Death of President F Roosevelt Oct 30 1996 C SPAN Lecture by Ferrell Chief Justice John Jay s Legacy Dec 12 1995 C SPAN Ashbrook Colloquium presentation by Ferrell Good Fortune in Politics The Case of Calvin Coolidge Jan 28 2005 Organization of American Historians panel on Truman biographies including Robert Ferrell s Harry S Truman A Life Alonzo Hamby s Man of the People A Life of Harry S Truman and David McCullough s Truman C SPANAs primary author Edit Peace in Their Time The Origins of the Kellogg Briand Pact 1952 Subject matter The Kellogg Briand Pact 40 Pearl Harbor and the Revisionists in The Historian Spring 1955 26 The Mukden Incident September 18 19 1931 in Journal of Modern History March 1955 41 American Diplomacy in the Great Depression Hoover Stimson Foreign Policy 1929 1933 1957 42 American Diplomacy A History 1959 with updated editions in 1969 1975 and 1987 43 The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy edited volumes 11 19 1958 1980 44 wrote Vol 11 Frank B Kellogg and Henry L Stimson 1963 Subject matter Frank B Kellogg Henry L Stimson 45 and Vol 15 George C Marshall 46 Maurice Glen Baxter Robert H Ferrell and John E Wiltz The Teaching of American History in High Schools 1964 16 Richard B Morris William Greenleaf and Robert H Ferrell America A History of the People 1971 47 Samuel F Wells Jr Robert H Ferrell and David F Trask The Ordeal of World Power American Diplomacy Since 1900 1975 48 Harry S Truman and the Modern American Presidency 1983 49 Truman A Centenary Remembrance 1884 1972 1984 50 Woodrow Wilson and World War I 1917 1921 New American Nation Series 1985 51 Truman s Place in History in Reviews in American History March 1990 52 Harry S Truman His Life On the Family Farms 1991 53 Ill Advised Presidential Health and Public Trust 1992 54 Choosing Truman The Democratic Convention of 1944 1994 Subject matter 1944 Democratic National Convention 55 Harry S Truman A Life 1994 56 Francis H Heller and Robert H Ferrell Plain Faking in American Heritage May June 1995 30 The Strange Deaths of President Harding 1996 57 Atlas of American History 1996 with Richard Natkiel 58 The Dying President Franklin D Roosevelt 1944 1945 1998 59 The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge 1998 60 Truman and Pendergast 1999 61 Harry S Truman American Presidents Reference Series 2002 62 Collapse at Meuse Argonne The Failure of the Missouri Kansas Division 2004 63 A Tale of Two Archives in Topic The Washington amp Jefferson College Review vol 54 A Festschrift for Professor Walter S Sanderlin 2004 64 Five Days in October The Lost Battalion of World War I 2005 Subject matter Lost Battalion World War I 65 Good Fortune in Politics The Case of Calvin Coolidge Ashbrook Colloquium 2005 66 Harry S Truman and the Cold War Revisionists 2006 27 Presidential Leadership From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S Truman 2006 67 Immigration and the Red Scare in Who Belongs in America Presidents Rhetoric and Immigration 2006 68 America s Deadliest Battle Meuse Argonne 1918 2007 2 The Question of MacArthur s Reputation Cote de Chatillon October 14 16 1918 2008 69 Grace Coolidge The People s Lady in Silent Cal s White House 2008 70 Unjustly Dishonored An African American Division in World War I 2011 38 As editor Edit Conference of Scholars on the European Recovery Program March 20 21 1964 at the Harry S Truman Library Transcript of discussion led by Robert H Ferrell 1964 71 Calvin Coolidge The Talkative President The Off the Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge 1964 72 Foundations of American Diplomacy 1775 1872 1968 73 America As a World Power 1872 1945 1971 74 America In a Divided World 1945 1972 1975 75 Harry S Truman Off the Record The Private Papers of Harry S Truman 1980 76 Dwight D Eisenhower The Eisenhower Diaries 1981 77 Harry S Truman Dear Bess The Letters From Harry to Bess Truman 1910 1959 1983 78 James Hagerty The Diary of James C Hagerty Eisenhower in Mid Course 1954 1955 1983 79 Joseph Douglas Lawrence Fighting Soldier The AEF in 1918 1985 80 Curtis V Hard Banners In the Air The Eighth Ohio Volunteers and the Spanish American War 1988 81 Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana Monterrey Is Ours The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Dana 1845 1847 1990 82 Truman in the White House The Diary of Eben A Ayers 1991 83 Grace Coolidge Grace Coolidge An Autobiography 1992 84 Flavel C Barber Holding the Line The Third Tennessee Infantry 1861 1864 1994 85 The Twentieth Century An Almanac 1995 86 Harry S Truman and the Bomb A Documentary History 1996 87 Frank C Walker FDR s Quiet Confidant The Autobiography of Frank C Walker 1997 88 Rudolph H Hartmann The Kansas City Investigation Pendergast s Downfall 1938 1939 1999 89 William S Triplet A Youth in the Meuse Argonne A Memoir 1917 1918 2000 90 William S Triplet A Colonel in the Armored Divisions A Memoir 1941 1945 2001 91 William S Triplet In the Philippines and Okinawa A Memoir 1945 1948 2001 92 The Autobiography of Harry S Truman 2002 93 Elmer W Sherwood A Soldier in World War I The Diary of Elmer W Sherwood 2004 94 Hugh S Thompson Trench Knives and Mustard Gas With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France C A Brannen Series No 6 2004 95 William M Wright Meuse Argonne Diary A Division Commander in World War I 2004 96 Horace Leonard Baker Argonne Days in World War I 2007 97 Pierpont L Stackpole In the Company of Generals The World War I Diary of Pierpont L Stackpole 2009 98 Arthur F Burns Inside the Nixon Administration The Secret Diary of Arthur Burns 1969 1974 2010 99 Conrad S Babcock Reminiscences of Conrad S Babcock The Old U S Army and the New 1898 1918 2012 37 References Edit Melvin A Goodman 24 April 2017 Whistleblower at the CIA An Insider s Account of the Politics of Intelligence City Lights Books pp 140 ISBN 978 0 87286 731 4 a b c d e Ferrell Robert H 2007 America s Deadliest Battle Meuse Argonne 1918 University Press of Kansas ISBN 978 0 7006 1499 8 LCCN 2006029077 a b c d e Grant James 2018 08 17 Robert H Ferrell a Historian of Breadth and Clarity The Wall Street Journal New York City Retrieved 2018 08 21 a b c d e f g h Schudel Matt 2018 08 23 Robert H Ferrell presidential historian and Truman biographer dies at 97 The Washington Post Retrieved 2018 08 26 a b c d e f Sandomir Richard 2018 08 22 Robert H Ferrell Authority on Truman Is Dead at 97 The New York Times Retrieved 2018 08 23 a b c d Clifford J Garry 2007 The Young Bob Ferrell In Clifford J Garry Wilson Theodore A eds Presidents Diplomats and Other Mortals Essays Honoring Robert H Ferrell Columbia Mo University of Missouri Press pp 307 315 ISBN 978 0 8262 1747 9 Phyllis Witzler John Rose Verna Rose 28 August 2017 Waterville Arcadia Publishing Incorporated pp 92 ISBN 978 1 4396 6204 5 Lawrence S Kaplan Scott L Bills E Timothy Smith 1997 The Romance of History Essays in Honor of Lawrence S Kaplan Kent State University Press pp 13 ISBN 978 0 87338 563 3 Ferrell Robert H Robert H Ferrell oral history November 3 1994 oral history Robert H Ferrell mss Indiana University Lilly Library Manuscript Collections Dissertations by year 1950 1959 Yale University Department of History Retrieved 22 August 2018 Historical Register of Yale University 1937 1951 New Haven Yale University Press 1952 p 80 George Louis Beer Prize Recipients American Historical Association Retrieved December 24 2017 Past Presidents Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Retrieved 2018 10 06 Robert H Ferrell C SPAN Retrieved 19 September 2018 The Presidents The Lives and Legacies of the 43 Leaders of the United States Television New York City A amp E Television Networks 2005 ISBN 9780767077606 OCLC 60583878 Retrieved 2018 09 05 a b Baxter Maurice Glen Ferrell Robert H Wiltz John E 1964 The Teaching of American History in High Schools Indiana University Press ISBN 9780598574671 Wolf Hazel C 1965 Book Reviews The Teaching of American History in High Schools Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 58 4 436 439 JSTOR 40190203 a b c d e Kaplan Lawrence 2007 Robert H Ferrell An Appreciation In Clifford J Garry Wilson Theodore A eds Presidents Diplomats and Other Mortals Essays Honoring Robert H Ferrell Columbia Mo University of Missouri Press pp 307 315 ISBN 978 0 8262 1747 9 Clifford J Garry Wilson Theodore A eds 2007 Robert H Ferrell s Ph D Students Presidents Diplomats and Other Mortals Essays Honoring Robert H Ferrell Columbia Mo University of Missouri Press pp 327 329 ISBN 978 0 8262 1747 9 Tyrrell R Emmett Jr 2018 08 21 Death of a historian Robert H Ferrell The Washington Times Retrieved 2018 08 23 Reginald Horsman 1981 Race and Manifest Destiny Harvard University Press ISBN 978 0 674 94805 1 Anderson Terry H 2004 The pursuit of fairness a history of affirmative action Oxford New York Oxford University Press ISBN 9780195182453 Preview Theodore A Wilson University of Kansas Retrieved 2018 10 06 Robert H Ferrell Book Prize Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Retrieved 22 August 2018 Samuel Flagg Bemis 1957 The Diplomacy of the American Revolution Indiana University Press ISBN 9780253200068 a b Ferrell Robert H Spring 1955 Pearl Harbor and the Revisionists The Historian 17 2 215 233 doi 10 1111 j 1540 6563 1955 tb00177 x JSTOR 24442314 a b Ferrell Robert H 1 May 2006 Harry S Truman and the Cold War Revisionists University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 6520 3 Cardwell Curt October 2007 Review of Ferrell Robert H Harry S Truman and the Cold War Revisionists H Diplo H Net Reviews Retrieved 27 May 2018 Hamby Alonzo L Fall 2015 Book Review Harry S Truman and the Cold War Revisionists by Robert H Ferrell Journal of Cold War Studies 17 4 203 204 doi 10 1162 JCWS r 00607 S2CID 57562585 Retrieved September 19 2018 a b Ferrell Robert H Heller Francis H May June 1995 Plain Faking American Heritage 46 3 Retrieved November 8 2011 Michael T Benson 1997 Harry S Truman and the Founding of Israel Greenwood Publishing Group pp 37 ISBN 978 0 275 95807 7 Lukacs John 1998 07 26 His Secret Life Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Retrieved 2018 09 08 Best Sellers Nonfiction The New York Times 1983 09 25 Retrieved 2018 09 11 Messenger Robert 2008 11 04 The Search For a Hero The Wall Street Journal New York City Retrieved 2018 09 07 The Norman and Laura Graebner Award Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Retrieved 2018 09 21 Distinguished Book Awards Society for Military History Retrieved 2018 09 21 a b Conrad S Babcock 2012 Ferrell Robert H ed Reminiscences of Conrad S Babcock The Old U S Army and the New 1898 1918 University of Missouri Press ISBN 9780826219817 LCCN 2012454782 a b Ferrell Robert H 20 May 2011 Unjustly Dishonored An African American Division in World War I University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 1916 9 LCCN 2012462746 Ferrell mss Lilly Library Manuscript Collections Indiana University Retrieved 2018 09 18 Ferrell Robert H 1952 Peace in Their Time The Origins of the Kellogg Briand Pact Yale University Press ISBN 978 0393004915 Ferrell Robert H March 1955 The Mukden Incident September 18 19 1931 Journal of Modern History University of Chicago Press 27 1 66 72 doi 10 1086 237763 JSTOR 1877701 S2CID 144691966 Ferrell Robert H 1957 American Diplomacy in the Great Depression Hoover Stimson Foreign Policy 1929 1933 Yale University Press ISBN 9780208007490 Ferrell Robert H 1959 American Diplomacy A History Norton ISBN 978 0 393 09309 4 LCCN 59006082 Samuel Flagg Bemis Robert H Ferrell eds 1958 80 The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy Pageant Book Co OCLC 13893460 Ferrell Robert H 1963 The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy Frank B Kellogg Cooper Square ISBN 9780815400691 Ferrell Robert H 1966 The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy Frank B Kellogg Cooper Square ISBN 9780815400707 Richard B Morris William Greenleaf Robert H Ferrell 1971 America A History of the People Rand McNally LCCN 70142735 Wells Jr Samuel F Ferrell Robert H Trask David F 1975 The Ordeal of World Power American Diplomacy Since 1900 Little Brown LCCN 75000187 Ferrell Robert H 1983 Harry S Truman and the Modern American Presidency Little Brown LCCN 82014889 Ferrell Robert H 1984 Truman A Centenary Remembrance 1884 1972 Viking Press LCCN 83040222 Ferrell Robert H 1985 Woodrow Wilson and World War I 1917 1921 Harper amp Row LCCN 84048160 Ferrell Robert H March 1990 Truman s Place in History Reviews in American History 18 1 1 9 doi 10 2307 2702718 JSTOR 2702718 Ferrell Robert H 1991 Harry S Truman His Life On the Family Farms High Plains Pub Co ISBN 978 0962333347 LCCN 90084548 Ferrell Robert H 1992 Ill Advised Presidential Health and Public Trust University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 1065 4 LCCN 92018527 Ferrell Robert H 1994 Choosing Truman The Democratic Convention of 1944 University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 7298 0 Ferrell Robert H 1994 Harry S Truman A Life University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 6045 1 Ferrell Robert H 1996 The Strange Deaths of President Harding University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 1202 3 Robert H Ferrell Richard Natkiel April 1996 Atlas of American History Facts on File ISBN 978 0 8160 3702 5 LCCN 84675628 Ferrell Robert H 1998 The Dying President Franklin D Roosevelt 1944 1945 University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 1171 2 LCCN 97045797 Ferrell Robert H 1998 The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge University Press of Kansas ISBN 978 0 7006 0892 8 LCCN 97051128 Ferrell Robert H 1999 Truman and Pendergast University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 6050 5 LCCN 99012736 Ferrell Robert H 2003 Harry S Truman American Presidents Reference Series CQ Press ISBN 978 1568027661 LCCN 2003020520 Ferrell Robert H 2004 Collapse at Meuse Argonne The Failure of the Missouri Kansas Division University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 6239 4 LCCN 2004004300 Ferrell Robert H 2004 Thomas Mainwaring ed A Tale of Two Archives Topic The Washington amp Jefferson College Review Washington amp Jefferson College 53 A Festschrift for Professor Walter S Sanderlin ISSN 0049 4127 Ferrell Robert H 2005 Five Days in October The Lost Battalion of World War I University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 6479 4 LCCN 2005001231 Robert H Ferrell 2005 01 28 Good Fortune in Politics The Case of Calvin Coolidge Ashbrook Colloquium Audio Ashland Ohio Ashbrook Center at Ashland University Retrieved 2018 09 14 Ferrell Robert H 2006 Presidential Leadership From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S Truman University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 6490 9 LCCN 2005023511 Ferrell Robert H 11 July 2006 Immigration and the Red Scare In Beasley Vanessa B ed Who Belongs in America Presidents Rhetoric and Immigration Texas A amp M University Press pp 134 148 ISBN 978 1 58544 505 9 Ferrell Robert H 2008 The Question of MacArthur s Reputation Cote de Chatillon October 14 16 1918 University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 6651 4 Ferrell Robert H 2008 Grace Coolidge The People s Lady in Silent Cal s White House ISBN 9780700615636 LCCN 2007045737 Ferrell Robert H ed 1964 Conference of Scholars on the European Recovery Program March 20 21 1964 at the Harry S Truman Library Harry S Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs LCCN 82232436 Calvin Coolidge 1964 Ferrell Robert H Quint Howard H eds The Talkative President The Off the Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge Garland Pub ISBN 978 0824097059 LCCN 78066526 Ferrell Robert H ed 1968 Foundations of American Diplomacy 1775 1872 University of South Carolina Press ISBN 9780872491229 LCCN 72001652 Ferrell Robert H ed 1971 America As a World Power 1872 1945 University of South Carolina Press ISBN 978 0 87249 244 8 LCCN 73154053 Ferrell Robert H ed 1975 America In a Divided World 1945 1972 Harper amp Row LCCN 74007602 Truman Harry S 1980 Ferrell Robert H ed Off the Record The Private Papers of Harry S Truman Harper amp Row ISBN 978 0 8262 1119 4 Dwight D Eisenhower 1981 Ferrell Robert H ed The Eisenhower Diaries Norton LCCN 80027866 Truman Harry S 1983 Ferrell Robert H ed Dear Bess The Letters From Harry to Bess Truman 1910 1959 Norton ISBN 978 0 8262 1203 0 James Campbell Hagerty 1983 Ferrell Robert H ed The Diary of James C Hagerty Eisenhower in Mid Course 1954 1955 Indiana University Press ISBN 9780253116253 Joseph Douglas Lawrence 1985 Ferrell Robert H ed Fighting Soldier The AEF in 1918 Colorado Associated University Press ISBN 978 0 87081 158 6 Hard Curtis V 1988 Ferrell Robert H ed Banners In the Air The Eighth Ohio Volunteers and the Spanish American War Kent State University Press ISBN 978 0873383677 LCCN 88012033 Dana Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh 1990 Ferrell Robert H ed Monterrey Is Ours The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Dana 1845 1847 University Press of Kentucky ISBN 978 0813117034 LCCN 89029351 Eben A Ayers 1991 Ferrell Robert H ed Truman in the White House The Diary of Eben A Ayers University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 0790 6 Grace Coolidge 1992 Wikander Lawrence E Ferrell Robert H eds Grace Coolidge An Autobiography High Plains Pub Co ISBN 978 1881019015 LCCN 92072825 Flavel C Barber 1994 Ferrell Robert H ed Holding the Line The Third Tennessee Infantry 1861 1864 Kent State University Press ISBN 978 0873385046 LCCN 94008653 Ferrell Robert H 1985 Ferrell Robert H Bowman John S eds The Twentieth Century An Almanac World Almanac Publications ISBN 978 0 345 32630 0 LCCN 83051725 Ferrell Robert H ed 1996 Harry S Truman and the Bomb A Documentary History High Plains Pub Co ISBN 978 1881019121 LCCN 96075053 Walker Frank Comerford 1997 Ferrell Robert H ed FDR s Quiet Confidant The Autobiography of Frank C Walker University Press of Colorado ISBN 978 0870813979 LCCN 96054006 Hartmann Rudolph H 1999 Ferrell Robert H ed The Kansas City Investigation Pendergast s Downfall 1938 1939 University of Missouri Press LCCN 99018273 Triplet William S 2000 Ferrell Robert H ed A Youth in the Meuse Argonne A Memoir 1917 1918 University of Missouri Press LCCN 00029921 Triplet William S 2001 Ferrell Robert H ed A Colonel in the Armored Divisions A Memoir 1941 1945 University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0826213129 LCCN 00050781 Triplet William S 2001 Ferrell Robert H ed In the Philippines and Okinawa A Memoir 1945 1948 University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0826213358 LCCN 2001027551 Truman Harry S 2002 Ferrell Robert H ed The Autobiography of Harry S Truman University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 1445 4 Elmer W Sherwood 2004 Ferrell Robert H ed A Soldier in World War I The Diary of Elmer W Sherwood Indiana Historical Society Press ISBN 978 0 87195 173 1 LCCN 2003069168 Hugh S Thompson 14 May 2004 Ferrell Robert H ed Trench Knives and Mustard Gas With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France Texas A amp M University Press ISBN 978 1 58544 290 4 LCCN 2003019696 William M Wright 2004 Ferrell Robert H ed Meuse Argonne Diary A Division Commander in World War I University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0826215277 LCCN 2004001710 Horace Leonard Baker 2007 Ferrell Robert H ed Argonne Days in World War I University of Missouri Press ISBN 978 0 8262 6575 3 Pierpont L Stackpole 2009 Ferrell Robert H ed In the Company of Generals The World War I Diary of Pierpont L Stackpole University of Missouri Press ISBN 9780826218704 LCCN 2009028219 Arthur F Burns 2010 Ferrell Robert H ed Inside the Nixon Administration The Secret Diary of Arthur Burns 1969 1974 University Press of Kansas ISBN 9780700617302 LCCN 2010021333 External links EditAppearances on C SPAN Works by or about Robert Hugh Ferrell at Internet Archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Robert Hugh Ferrell amp oldid 1171367264, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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