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* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=Randall Bennett |title=LBJ |date=August 2006 |publisher=Free Press |isbn=978-0-684-83458-0 |publication-place=New York |oclc=ocm65820366}} <ref>{{Cite news |last=Brinkley |first=Review by Alan |date=2006-08-20 |title=The Making of a War President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/books/review/20Brinkley.html |access-date=2024-07-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=Randall Bennett |title=LBJ |date=August 2006 |publisher=Free Press |isbn=978-0-684-83458-0 |publication-place=New York |oclc=ocm65820366}} <ref>{{Cite news |last=Brinkley |first=Review by Alan |date=2006-08-20 |title=The Making of a War President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/books/review/20Brinkley.html |access-date=2024-07-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=Randall Bennett |title=A Changing of the Guard |date=July 2008 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-5941-4}}
* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=Randall Bennett |title=A Changing of the Guard |date=July 2008 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-5941-4}}
* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=Randall B. |title=Shadow Warrior |date=2013-04-09 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-02194-9 |publication-place=New York}}
* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=Randall B. |title=Shadow Warrior |date=2013-04-09 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-02194-9 |publication-place=New York}} <ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-04-06 |title=Book review: ‘Shadow Warrior: The Life of William Egan Colby,’ by Randall B. Woods |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/books/2013/04/06/book-review-shadow-warrior-the-life-of-william-egan-colby-by-randall-b-woods/ |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=Dallas News |language=en}}</ref>
* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=Randall Bennett |title=A Black Odyssey |date=2021-10-08 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0-7006-3180-3}}
* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=Randall Bennett |title=A Black Odyssey |date=2021-10-08 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0-7006-3180-3}}
* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JQTZEAAAQBAJ |title=John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |year=2024 |isbn=978-0-593-18725-8 |access-date=}} <ref>{{Cite web |last=Lengel |first=Edward G. |date=July 2, 2024 |title='John Quincy Adams' Review: Standing on Principle |url=https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/john-quincy-adams-review-standing-on-principle-9bf678ed?mod=books_news_article_pos2 |website=WSJ}}</ref>
* {{cite book |last=Woods |first=R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JQTZEAAAQBAJ |title=John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |year=2024 |isbn=978-0-593-18725-8 |access-date=}} <ref>{{Cite web |last=Lengel |first=Edward G. |date=July 2, 2024 |title='John Quincy Adams' Review: Standing on Principle |url=https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/john-quincy-adams-review-standing-on-principle-9bf678ed?mod=books_news_article_pos2 |website=WSJ}}</ref>

Revision as of 18:54, 5 July 2024

Randall Bennett Woods (born October 10, 1944 ) is an American historian. His research focuses on the history of the United States, as well as its foreign policy history.[1]

Woods has been the John A. Cooper Professor of History at University of Arkansas since 1984.[2]

Life

Woods graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. After completing his doctorate , Woods began teaching at the University of Arkansas , serving as an assistant professor from 1972 to 1977 , an associate professor from 1977 to 1979, a professor from 1979 to 1995, and a distinguished professor since 1995.[3]

He was Stanley Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College from 2009 to 2010 . In 2012, he was Mellon Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University.[4] From 2013 to 2014, he was John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford .

His book Fulbright: A Biography won the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1996 . It was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award .

His work appeared in American Heritage.[5]

Works

  • Woods, Randall Bennett (1979). The Roosevelt Foreign-policy Establishment and the "good Neighbor". Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0188-2.
  • Woods, Randall Bennett; Jones, Howard (1994). Dawning of the Cold War. Chicago, Ill: I. R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-047-4.
  • Woods, Randall Bennett (1995-06-30). Fulbright. Cambridge [UK] ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-48262-2. OCLC 71347489.
  • Woods, Randall Bennett (1998-02-13). J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58800-3.
  • Woods, Randall Bennett (2005-03-07). Quest for Identity. Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54997-4.
  • Woods, Randall Bennett (August 2006). LBJ. New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83458-0. OCLC 65820366. [6]
  • Woods, Randall Bennett (July 2008). A Changing of the Guard. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-5941-4.
  • Woods, Randall B. (2013-04-09). Shadow Warrior. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02194-9. [7]
  • Woods, Randall Bennett (2021-10-08). A Black Odyssey. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-3180-3.
  • Woods, R. (2024). John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-593-18725-8. [8]

References

  1. ^ "Woods, Randall Bennett 1944- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  2. ^ "Distinguished Historian Randall Woods to Speak on John Quincy Adams". University of Arkansas News. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  3. ^ "Faculty | History | University of Arkansas". history.uark.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  4. ^ "Randall B. Woods". Revisiting The Great Society: the Role of Government from FDR and LBJ to Today. 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  5. ^ "Author: Woods B. Randall(Randall B. Woods)". www.americanheritage.com. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  6. ^ Brinkley, Review by Alan (2006-08-20). "The Making of a War President". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  7. ^ "Book review: 'Shadow Warrior: The Life of William Egan Colby,' by Randall B. Woods". Dallas News. 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  8. ^ Lengel, Edward G. (July 2, 2024). "'John Quincy Adams' Review: Standing on Principle". WSJ.