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John Lewis Gaddis (born April 2, 1941) is an American military historian, political scientist, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University . [1]
John Lewis Gaddis is an American historian and a preeminent scholar of the Cold War. He is best known as the leading historian of the Post-Revisionist school. Born in Cotulla, southern Texas, Gaddis was educated at the University of Austin, graduating with a PhD in history (1968).
John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, where he teaches courses on the Cold War, grand strategy, biography, historical methods, and time travel.
Over the past for decades, John Lewis Gaddis has made a name for himself in academic and policy circles for his incisive examination of the Cold War. Interested in the intersection between current events and history--and the process by which current events becomes history--Gaddis gravitated toward diplomatic history early on.
Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why—from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went...
May 9, 2024 · Professor John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History and Director of the Brady Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University.
Feb 27, 2013 · An Interview with John Lewis Gaddis, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian. Yale Journal of International Affairs: Professor Gaddis, you are well-known for both your work on the Cold War and the policy of containment. Did containment help the United States win the Cold War?
Apr 3, 2018 · John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian and acclaimed author of The Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught the grand strategy seminar at Yale University with his...
Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History. Professor Gaddis, who received his PhD from the University of Texas in 1968, has published numerous books, including: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972); Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security (1982); The Long ...
Apr 20, 2018 · “On Grand Strategy,” by John Lewis Gaddis, a pre-eminent historian and biographer of the Cold War, does not offer a comprehensive analysis, much less a history, of strategy on a grand scale in ...
