Melvin Small
{{short description|American historian (born 1939)}}
{{Infobox academic
|name = Melvin Small
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|3|14}}
|birth_place = New York City, U.S.
|workplaces = Wayne State University
|alma_mater = Dartmouth College (BA)
University of Michigan (PhD)
|discipline = History
|sub_discipline = Post-war era
American foreign policy
Public opinion
Vietnam War
Antiwar movement
}}
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.
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 University (Denmark). In 1969–1970, 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 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.{{Cite web|date=2012-04-02|title=Antiwarriors – Melvin Small|url=https://douglasibell.com/2012/04/02/antiwarriors-melvin-small/|access-date=2020-06-07|website=Douglas I. Bell|language=en}}
A former president of the Peace History Society, Small has written or edited fifteen books, including 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).{{cite web |url=http://www.clas.wayne.edu/faculty/small |title=Faculty Listing: Melvin Small |website=Wayne State University |access-date=2023-04-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701155527/http://www.clas.wayne.edu/faculty/small |archive-date=July 1, 2010}}.{{Cite journal|last=Mugleston|first=William F.|date=2005-03-22|title=Melvin Small. Antiwarriors: the Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=07301383&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA131689886&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|journal=Teaching History: A Journal of Methods|language=English|volume=30|issue=1|pages=53–55|doi=10.33043/TH.30.1.53-54 |doi-access=free}}{{Cite web|date=2011-11-25|title=New Nixon Tapes Reveal Details of Meeting With Anti-War Activists|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-nixon-tapes-reveal-details-of-meeting-with-anti-war-activists|access-date=2020-06-07|website=PBS NewsHour|language=en-us}}{{Cite book |last1=Carroll |first1=John Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6HiJQUMbNfMC&q=Melvin+Small+bio&pg=PA292 |title=Modern American Diplomacy |last2=Herring |first2=George C. |author2-link=George C. Herring |date=1996 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8420-2555-3 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|81629}}
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Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:Dartmouth College alumni
Category:Wayne State University faculty
Category:Historians of the United States
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Scholars of diplomacy
Category:American male non-fiction writers
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