Education: AB., Princeton University, summa cum laude. 1961
M.A, Columbia University, 1962
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968
Professional
1965-70 Instructor to Assistant Professor of History, Wellesley College, Wellesley,
Massachusetts
1970-71 Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin
1971-76 Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin
1976-87 Professor of History, University of Wisconsin
1987-99 William Francis Allen Professor of History, University of Wisconsin
1988-91 Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin
1999- E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions
Awards and Distinctions:
Prizes, Honors:
Honorable mention, Laurence Hutton Prize in History, Princeton University
Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University
Faculty Scholarship, Columbia University
Edward John Noble Fellowship, Columbia University
Charles M Gates Memorial Prize for best article in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 1965
President's Fellowship, Columbia University
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, 1970-71, 1991-92
Standard Oil Teaching Award, 1971
Graduate School Grants, University of Wisconsin, Sem. 11 1971-72; Summer
1974; Summer 1975; Year 1979-80; Summer 1980; Summer 1983; Spring
1987, Summer, 1992; Summer 1998
American Philosophical Society Grant, 1972
Spencer Foundation grant (through U.W. Education School), Summer 1973
Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin Fellowship, Sem.
1, 1976-77
Romnes Faculty Fellowship, 1978-83
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1979-80
Vitas Associateship, 1985-86
Faculty Development Grant, 1986
Fulbright Professorship in United States History, Moscow State University, 1987
University Houses Professorship, 1987-1994
Wisconsin Library Association Prize for Pivotal j, 1991
UW-Madison Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty Member, 1996
Major Field of Interest and Subjects Taught:
Twentieth Century America; American Foreign Policy;
Civil War and Reconstruction; Southern History; Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
American Wars; Race and Reform
Courses Taught at the, University Of Wisconsin:
History 102, United States 1865-present
History 200, Freshman-Sophomore Seminar
ILS 225, American Society, 1865-present
History 395, The United States, 1877-1917 - changed 1980-81 to 187.7-1914
History 397, The United States, 1917-Present - changed 1980-81 to History 397, United
States 1914-1945
History 398, The United States, 1945-present
History 571, Three American Wars; American Wars in the Twentieth Century; The Great
Books of American History, Race and Reform in Twentieth Century America
History 600, Junior-Senior Seminar
History 901, Studies in American History, Twentieth Century United States; The South
Since Reconstruction, American Political History
History 902, Research Seminar. U.S. and World War L Political History
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
The Vanitv of Power; American Isolationism and the First World War. 1914-1917.
Westport, Conn., Greenwood Publishing Corp., 1969
Editor, Causes and Consequences of World War I. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1972
Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American,1855-1918. Chapel [fill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1977
The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson an Theodore Roosevelt. Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard
University Press, 1983
Pivotal Decades: The United States 1900-1920. New York W.W. Norton & Co., 1990
Editor with Charles E. Neu, The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link.
Arlington Heights, ILL., Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1991
Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Articles:
"William E. Borah, Political Thespian," Pacific Northwest Quarterly LVI (October, 1965),
145-158
"Progressivism and American Foreign Policy: A Reconsideration," Mid-America LI
(October, 1969), 260-277
"Neo-Progressivism and 'Slack-Water Politics,'" in M.D. Hancock and Gideon Sjobereds., Politics in
the Post-Welfare State (New York, 1972),
"Racism and Reform: A Review Essay," Wisconsin Magazine of History LV (Winter, 1971-72),140-144
"The British Response to the House-Grey Memorandum: New Evidence and New Questions," Journal
of American History LIX (March, 1975), 958-971
"Frederick Jackson Turner and the Wisconsin Idea: A Recently Discovered Letter,"
Wisconsin Magazine of History LVII (Summer, 1974), 310-312
"Woodrow Wilson Through Alien Eyes," Reviews in American History III (September, 1975),
359-364
"The Home Front" (World War 1) in Maldwyn Jones, ed., American Destiny: An Illustrated
Bicentennial History of the United States (New York, 1976), 110-127
"The Command of Gold Reversed: American Loans to Britain, 1915-1917," Pacific Historical Review
XLV (May, 1976), 209-230
"Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American," Virginia Quarterly Review LIII
(Autumn, 1977), 670-676
"An Irony of Fate: Woodrow Wilson's Pre-World War I Diplomacy," Diplomatic History III (Fall,
1979), 425-438
"World War I: European Origins and American Intervention," Virginia Quarterly Review LVI
(Winter, 1980), 1-18
"'The Warrior and the Priest': Toward a Comparative Perspective on Theodore Roosevelt and
Woodrow Wilson," South Atlantic Quarterlv LJXX (Autumn, 1981), 419- 428 .
"Are Ideas Weapons?," Reviews in American History IX (December, 1981), 537-542
"Another 'Irony of Fate': Woodrow Wilson's Domestic Politics," in Woodrow Wilson : A
Commemorative Celebration (Washington, The Wilson Center, 1982), 13-19
"Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Man," Virginia Quarterly Review LVIII (Winter,
1982), 38-53
"The New Freedom," in Jack P. Greene, et a1 eds., The Encyclopedia of American
Political History (New York, 1984), II, 890-895
"Theodore Roosevelt: On Clio's Active Service," Virginia Quarterly Review LXII (Winter
1986), 21-37
"Robert M. La Follette: Political Prophet," Wisconsin Magazine of History LXIX (Winter
1985-86),91-105
"The Hero and the Saint," Reviews in American History XIV (June 1986), 169-174
"Gifford Pinchot Creates a Forest Service," in Erwin Hargrove and J.W. Doig, eds., Leadership and
Innovation (Johns Hopkins University Press), 83-95
"My Mission to Moscow: An American Historian in the Soviet Union," Wisconsin Magazine of
History LXXII (Autumn, 1988), 38-50
"Lonesome Lion and Crippled Prophet: Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as Former
Presidents," in Richard Norton Smith and Timothy Watch, eds., Farewell to the Chief:
Former Presidents in American Life (High Plains Publishing [for the Hoover Presidential
Library] 1990), 3-9
"Fool's Errand or Finest Hour? Woodrow Wilson's Speaking Tour, September 1919," in
John Milton Cooper, Jr. end Charles E. Neu, eds., The Wilson Era; Essays in Honor of Arthur
S. Link (Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1991), 198-220.
"If TR Had Gone Down with the Titanic: A Look at I-&s Last Decade," in Natalie A.
Naylor, John Gable and Douglas Brinkley, eds., Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided
American (Interlaken, NY: Heart of the Lake Publishing, 1992), 499-514
"The Best-and the Worst of Times, 1897-1920" in Of the People: The History
of the Democratic Party (Los Angeles, CA: General Publishing Group, 1992), 95
111
"Wilsonian Democracy" in Peter B. Kovler, ed., Democrats and the American People: A
Bicentennial Appraisal (Washington, DC: Center for National Policy Press, 1992),
203-227
"The Big Debate," Constitution (Fall, 1993), 2-12
"Disability in the White House: The Case of Woodrow Wilson," in Frank Freidel and
William Pencak, eds., The White House: The First Two Hundred Years (Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1993), 75-99. (also "introduction," "i., xvü-xxi)
"The Election of 1900," in Arthur M. Schlesinger, 1r., ed., Running for President: The
Candidates and the Issues (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994),11, 1-9
"The Election of 1904," ibid., 24-33
"Vtoroi'zolotoi ve' emerikanskoi politiki," ["The Second 'Golden Age of
American Politics,"] in E.F. Iaz'kov, ed., Istorischeskü obraz m ri'kJ' (Moscow: Ladomir,
1994).
Introduction to Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West (Lincoln, Neb.:
University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books edition, 1995), Vol. I, pp. vii-xvii.
"Great Expectations and Shadowlands: American Presidents and Their Reputations in the
Twentieth Century," Virginia Quarterly Review, LXXI (Summer, 1996), 377-
391.
"A Shadowed Office: The Vice-Presidency, 1900-1920," in Timothy Walch, ed., The
Vice-Presidency in the Twentieth Century (University of Missouri Press, 1997),
9-23.
"The Shock of Recognition: The Impact of World War I on America," Virginia Quarterly
Review, LXXVI (Autumn, 2000), 567-584.
"Arthur S. Link," in Robert Allen Rutland, ed., Clio’s Favorites: Historians of the United States,
1945-2000 (University of Missouri Press, 2000), 111-125.
"Impeachment: A (Civil) Religious Perspective," in Leonard V. Kaplan and Beverly 1.
Moran, eds., Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and )Presidency in the Age
Political Spectacle (New York University Press, 2001), 150-161.
"`The Leaving It': The Election of 2000 before the Bar of History," in Jack Rakove, ed., The
Unfinished Election Of 2000 (Basic Books, 2001), 3-38.
"The United States," in Richard F. Hamilton and Holger Herwig, eds., The Origins of World War I
(Cambridge University Press, 2003) 415-442.
“The Great War and American Memory,” Virginia Quarterly Review, LXXXIX (Winter, 2003), 70-
84.
"Not So Innocent Abroad: The Hoovers' Early Years," in Timothy Walch, ed., Uncommon
Americans:
The Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover (Praeger, 2003), 39-47.
“Five Who Made an Empire,” Virginia Quarterly Review, LXXIX (Summer, 2003), 578-585