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
Born (1939-03-14) March 14, 1939
New York City, New York, U.S.
Academic background
Alma materDartmouth College (BA)
University of Michigan (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplinePost-war era
American foreign policy
Public opinion
Vietnam War
Antiwar movement
InstitutionsWayne State University

Education

Small earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1960 and Ph.D. from the [[University of Michigan] in 1965.


Career

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 (Denmark) University. In 1969-70, 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 recent 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 the award-winning 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), among the fifteen books he has written or edited.[2][3][4][5]

References
  1. "Antiwarriors – Melvin Small". Douglas I. Bell. 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  2. "Faculty Listing". Archived from the original on July 1, 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-24.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link).
  3. 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.
  4. "New Nixon Tapes Reveal Details of Meeting With Anti-War Activists". PBS NewsHour. 2011-11-25. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  5. Carroll, John Martin; Herring, George C. (1996). Modern American Diplomacy. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8420-2555-3.


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