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Dr. Norman Graebner |
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Dr.
Norman A. Graebner, one of America's foremost
historians, taught at Marshall University during
the Spring Term 1989.
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specialist in American foreign policy, Graebner
was the third occupant of the John Deaver Drinko
and Elizabeth G. Drinko Distinguished Chair in
Liberal Arts.
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taught a combined graduate-undergraduate class,
"American Diplomacy from 1900 to the present," as
well as a graduate seminar, "The Coming of World
War II." Of 35 students enrolled in the American
diplomacy class, 16 took the course as part of the
university's Honors Program.
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Graebner retired in 1986
as the Randolph P. Compton Professor of History and Public
Affairs at the University of Virginia where he had held the
Edward R. Stettinius Professorship in Modern American History
from 1967 to 1982. He also held an appointment to the University
of Virginia's Center for Advanced Study for two years, 1967-69. |
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He earned his B. S.
degree from Milwaukee State Teachers College (now the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), an M. A, in history from the University
of Oklahoma and a Ph. D. in history from the University of
Chicago.He also holds an M. A. from Oxford University and
honorary degrees from Albright College, Valparaiso University,
the University of Pittsburgh and Eastern Illinois University. |
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In addition to the
University of Virginia, he has taught at Iowa State University,
Stanford University and the University of Illinois. He served
two years as chairman of the History Department at Illinois and
was an associate member of that university's Center for Advanced
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Graebner was the Harold
Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford
University in 1978-79. He served as a Fulbright Lecturer at the
University of Queensland (Australia) in 1963 and returned to
that country in 1983 as Fulbright Lecturer at the University of
Sydney. |
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He also has served as a
distinguished visiting professor at the University of London,
Louisiana State University, Pennsylvania State University, the
U.S. Military Academy and Downing College of Cambridge
University. At Penn State, he also directed the university's
Bicentennial Program in 1975-76. |
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He is author, co-author
or editor of 20 books and has written some 120 articles, essays
and portions of books He also is contributing editor of "Current
History." |
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