Sally Marks

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Sally J. Marks (January 18, 1931 – January 14, 2018) was an American historian and author specialising in the field of post-First World War diplomatic history.

Biography

Marks was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduation from Wellesley College, she worked for the US Department of Defense. Marks received a master's degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, before doing a PhD in the United Kingdom at the London School of Economics.{{cite journal |last1=Fink |first1=Carole |date=4 September 2018 |title=Sally Marks (1931–2018) |url=https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/sally-marks-1931-2018-diplomatic-historian-aha-member-since-1969-september-2018/ |journal=Perspectives on History |publisher=American Historical Association |access-date=29 February 2024}}

Marks lectured in history at Rhode Island College, receiving the Mary Tucker Thorp College Professorship in 1983.{{cite web |title=About the Mary Tucker Thorp College Professorship |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926115320/https://www.ric.edu/thorplecture/about.php |website=Rhode Island College |access-date=29 February 2024}} Her research during the 1970s focused on then-newly opened archives of diplomatic correspondence from the period during and immediately after the First World War. Her discoveries in these archives cast doubt on the then-popular viewpoint advocated by John Maynard Keynes that the Versailles treaty had been excessively punitive. In 1988 she took early retirement from teaching at the college to focus full-time on research. From the 1990s onwards Marks suffered from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and in later life from poor eyesight.

Historian William R. Keylor of Boston University said of her work that it had "...precipitated what might be called the post-Keynesian version of the economic portion of the peace settlement of 1919 that has won widespread acceptance in the profession".{{cite web |last1=Keylor |first1=William R. |title=A Tribute to Sally Marks |url=https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/atributetosallymarks.pdf |website=H-Diplo |publisher=H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online |access-date=29 February 2024 |date=19 January 2018}}

Awards and honors

Marks received the George Louis Beer Prize for her 1981 book Innocent Abroad: Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference.{{cite web|url=https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/aha-prize-in-european-international-history-recipients|title=AHA Prize in European International History Recipients|publisher=American Historical Association|access-date=2024-03-02}} She also received the Phi Alpha Theta senior scholar award, as well as fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Books

Marks was the author of books including:

The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe 1918–1933 (Macmillan, 1976)Reviews of The Illusion of Peace:

Anthony Adamthwaite, The English Historical Review, {{jstor|565540}}
Roger Chickering, The Historian, {{jstor|24445060}}
Ruth Henig, International Affairs, {{doi|10.2307/2615601}}, {{jstor|2615601}}
Klaus Hildebrand, Historische Zeitschrift, {{jstor|27620633}}
Michael W. Howell, Teaching History, [https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA131689880&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=07301383&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E30205202&aty=open-web-entry]
Keith Robbins, History, {{jstor|24410894}}
William E. Scott, The American Historical Review, {{doi|10.1086/ahr/82.5.1239}}, {{jstor|1856386}}

Innocent Abroad: Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (University of North Carolina Press, 1981)Reviews of Innocent Abroad:

M. L. Dockrill, International Affairs, {{doi|10.2307/2619878}}, {{jstor|2619878}}
Jost Dülffer, Historische Zeitschrift, {{jstor|27623126}}
C. H. D. Howard, History, {{jstor|24418284}}
Melvyn P. Leffler, The American Historical Review, {{doi|10.1086/ahr/87.1.191}}, {{jstor|1863377}}
Anne Orde, The English Historical Review, {{jstor|567882}}
Roy Prete, The International History Review, {{jstor|40105263}}
Reinhard Schiffers, Francia, {{doi|10.11588/fr.1981.0.51055}}
Gilbert Trausch, Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, [https://www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_1986_num_64_4_5613_t1_0892_0000_3]
Studia Diplomatica, {{jstor|44835046}}

The Ebbing of European Ascendancy: An International History of the World, 1914–1945 (Arnold, 2002)Reviews of The Ebbing of European Ascendancy:
Anthony Adamthwaite, The English Historical Review, {{jstor|3490104}}
Paul Schue, The History Teacher, {{jstor|1555707}}

Paul Hymans: Belgium (Makers of the Modern World: The Peace Conferences of 1919–23 and Their Aftermath, Haus Publishing, 2010)Review of Paul Hymans:

Norman Stone, Diplomacy & Statecraft, {{doi|10.1080/09592296.2011.599673}}

References

Category:1931 births

Category:2018 deaths

Category:21st-century American historians

Category:21st-century American women writers

Category:Historians of American foreign relations

Category:American women non-fiction writers

Category:People from New Haven, Connecticut

Category:People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome