Gaddis Smith
George Gaddis Smith is the Larned professor emeritus of history at Yale University and an expert on American foreign relations and maritime history.
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He has spent virtually his entire career at Yale. After graduating from the Pingry School in 1950[1], he received his bachelor's degree from Yale in 1954, where he served as chairman of the Yale Daily News. In 1961, he earned his PhD in history from Yale. In over forty years of teaching at the university, he chaired the Department of History, served as master of Pierson College and directed the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
His book on the history of the university, Yale in the 20th Century, was to be published in August 2007. Publication has been delayed, and it has not yet been released. He continues to teach the occasional seminar at Yale.
Smith received several awards from Yale College for his work there:
- 1986 - The William Clyde DeVane Medal for distinguished scholarship and teaching, awarded by the Yale Chapter (Alpha of Connecticut) of Phi Beta Kappa
- 1989 - The Harwood F. Byrnes-Richard B. Sewall Prize for Teaching Excellence
- 1997 - The Mory's Cup for service to the University
One of his former students is President George W. Bush.[2]
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Smith has authored over 200 articles, essays and reviews in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, and various historical journals. He has also published six books:
- American Diplomacy in the Second World War
- Morality, Reason and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years
- The Aims of American Foreign Policy
- Dean Acheson
- Britain's Clandestine Submarines: 1914-1915
- The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine: 1945-1993
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