John H. Morrow Jr.

Morrow earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Swarthmore College. In 1971,{{cite web |url=http://www.uc.edu/webapps/NEHwwone2014/documents/NEH_WWI_CV_John_Morrow.pdf |title=Education |author= |website=University of Cincinnati |access-date=28 December 2015}} he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with his Ph.D. in Modern European History.{{cite web |url=http://history.usf.edu/worldwar/data/morrow.pdf |title=Biography--John H. Morrow, Jr. |author= |website=University of South Florida: History |publisher=University of South Florida |access-date=28 December 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

For seventeen years, starting in 1971, Morrow taught at the University of Tennessee (UTK) in the College of Arts and Sciences. He was the first African-American faculty member. From 1983 to 1988, he served as Head of the university's History Department. He was the first African-American to chair a department at UTK, and the university's first African-American Macebearer. The latter is the highest honor a faculty member can receive.{{cite web |url=http://history.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/02/Fleming-Morrow-Distinguished-Lecture-Series-and-Endowment.pdf |title=The Department of History... |author= |website=University of Tennessee History Department |publisher=University of Tennessee |access-date=29 December 2015 }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Because of his successful career at UTK, a lecture series and military history award was named after him.

In 1988, Morrow joined the faculty at the University of Georgia as Franklin Professor. Three years later, he was elected History Department chairman. From 1993 to 1995, he served as the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2010, Morrow was again elected History Department chairman.

From 1988 to 1989, Morrow served as the Charles A Lindbergh Visiting Professor at the National Air and Space Museum.

For a single semester in 2005, Morrow was a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy in West Point. Here, he taught German history, and was awarded an Outstanding Civilian Service Medal by the United States Department of the Army.

He has been a lecturer at the National War College, Air War College, and US Military Academy. Morrow has also been on numerous committees. Morrow was a part of the History Advisory committee to the Secretary of the Air Force, Research Advisory Committee of the National Museum of American History, and Search Committee for the Director of the National Museum of American History. He has also served on the History Advisory Committee of the Department of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission's Legacy Committee, and First Flight Centennial Federal Advisory Board.

Morrow is a member of Presidential Counselors of The National WWII Museum in New Orleans and on the advisory board of the Center for Oral History at the US Military Academy in West Point.

He is the son of former American diplomat John H. Morrow and Ann Rowena Davis Morrow, and sister to Jean Rowena Morrow.{{cite web |last1=McLellan |first1=Carlton |title=John Howard Morrow (1910-2000) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/morrow-john-howard-1910-2000/ |publisher=Blackpast |accessdate=November 23, 2019 |date=April 13, 2015}} He is the nephew of E. Frederic Morrow, the nations first African American to hold an executive position at the White House and Nellie Morrow Parker, the first African-American public school teacher in Bergen County, New Jersey.

• 1985: University of Tennessee, Outstanding Teacher, National Alumni Association
• 1985: University of Tennessee, Macebearer
• 2005: US Department of the Army, Outstanding Civilian Service
• 2019: Pritzker Literature Award{{cite web |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pritzker-military-museum--library-announces-2019-literature-award-recipient-300881689.html |title=Pritzker Military Museum & Library Announces 2019 Literature Award Recipient |work=Cision PR Newswire |author= |date=June 9, 2012 |accessdate=July 9, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/07/09/arts/ap-us-books-pritzker-award.html |title=Military Historian John H. Morrow Wins $100,000 Award |work=The New York Times |agency=The Associated Press |author= |date=July 9, 2019 |accessdate=July 9, 2019}}

• Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality (2014), co-author, {{ISBN|978-0700619573}}
• Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (1998), contributor
• A Yankee Ace in the RAF. The World War I Letters of Captain Boart Rogers (1996), Editor, {{ISBN|978-0700607983}}
• The Great War in the Air (1993) {{ISBN|978-1560982388}}
• German Airpower in World War I (1982)
• Building German Airpower (1976) {{ISBN|978-0870491962}}

• [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/jeffrey-sammons-harlems-rattlers-and-great-war/ Jeffrey Sammons and John H. Morrow Jr. at Pritzker Military Museum & Library]

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