Arnold A. Offner
{{short description|American historian, and Cornelia F (born 1937)}}
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| spouse = Ellen Siegel Offner, m.1962
| children = Deborah and Michael
| parents = Helen Wolowitz and Samuel Offner
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| education = Columbia University (BA)
Indiana University (PhD)
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| workplaces = Syracuse University
Boston University
Lafayette College
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Arnold A. Offner (born September 6, 1937, Brooklyn) is an American historian, and Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.{{cite web |title=Arnold Offner - Past Position |url=https://shafr.org/content/arnold-offner |website=shafr.org |publisher=The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations |accessdate=19 September 2018 }}
Life
Offner grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a B.A. from Columbia University in 1959, and an M.A. in 1960 and Ph.D in 1964 from Indiana University. He taught at Syracuse University, Boston University, and Lafayette College. He has won numerous awards for his scholarship and teaching. He resides in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen.{{cite journal|title=APA Awards Outstanding Psychology Teachers with Excellence in Teaching Award|last=Offner|first=Arnold|date=2009|doi = 10.1037/e595082009-001}}{{cite web|url=https://news.lafayette.edu/2012/05/16/retiring-faculty-elected-to-emeritus-status/|title=Retiring Faculty Elected to Emeritus Status · News · Lafayette College|website=news.lafayette.edu|date=16 May 2012 |access-date=2018-09-19}}
Works
- Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953 Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. {{ISBN|9780804747745}}, {{OCLC|470193652}}{{cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8047-4254-2|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Another Such Victory - President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953 by Arnold A. Offner, Author. Stanford Univ. (656p) ISBN 978-0-8047-4254-2|work=PublishersWeekly.com|access-date=2018-09-16}}{{cite journal|last=Miscamble|first=Wilson D.|date=2003|title=Revisionism Revived - Arnold A. Offner: Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953. (Stanford, CA.: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. Xviii, 626.)|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-politics/article/revisionism-revived-arnold-a-offner-another-such-victory-president-truman-and-the-cold-war-19451953-stanford-ca-stanford-university-press-2002-pp-xviii-626-3795/C7B89EC625A6FB9153330D0A911384FA|journal=The Review of Politics|volume=65|issue=2|pages=304–306|doi=10.1017/S0034670500050099|s2cid=145729024 |issn=1748-6858}}
- The Origins of the Second World War: American Foreign Policy and World Politics, 1917-1941, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973. {{ISBN|9780894643200}}, {{OCLC|847437948}}
- [https://archive.org/details/americanappeasem0000offn American Appeasement: United States Foreign Policy and Germany, 1933-1938], Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965; New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. {{ISBN|9780393008012}}, {{OCLC|957963637}}
- Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country Yale University Press, 2018. {{ISBN|9780300222395}}, {{OCLC|1024158677}}{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/hubert-humphrey-review-the-man-from-minnesota-1535751289|title='Hubert Humphrey' Review: The Man From Minnesota|last=Kosner|first=Edward|date=2018-08-31|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2018-09-16|issn=0099-9660}}{{cite news|url=http://www.startribune.com/new-book-on-a-favorite-son-holds-timeless-truths-and-tantalizing-what-ifs/492219241/|title=New book on a favorite son holds timeless truths and tantalizing what ifs|work=Star Tribune|access-date=2018-09-16}}
- [http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/07/26/south-made-hubert-humphrey-care-race/ideas/essay/ “How the South Made Hubert Humphrey Care About Race,”]
- {{cite journal|last=Offner|first=Arnold A.|date=August 1962|title=William E. Dodd: Romantic Historian and Diplomatic Cassandra|journal=The Historian|volume=24|issue=4|pages=451–469|doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.1962.tb01734.x|issn=0018-2370}}
References
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External links
- [https://arnoldaoffner.com/about-arnold-a-offner/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916055837/https://arnoldaoffner.com/about-arnold-a-offner/ |date=2018-09-16 }}
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Category:Historians from New York (state)
Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:Indiana University alumni
Category:Lafayette College faculty
Category:Syracuse University faculty
Category:Boston University faculty
Category:Academics from Brooklyn
Category:People from Newton, Massachusetts
Category:Presidents of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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