Arnold A. Offner (born September 6, 1937,

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) is an American historian, and Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History Emeritus at

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General La ...

. He is a past president of the

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Life

Offner grew up in

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. He earned a B.A. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

in 1959, and an M.A. in 1960 and Ph.D in 1964 from

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. * Indiana Univers ...

. He taught at

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, and

. He has won numerous awards for his scholarship and teaching. He resides in

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, with his wife, Ellen.

Works

* ''Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953'' Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. , * ''The Origins of the Second World War: American Foreign Policy and World Politics, 1917-1941'', New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973. , *
American Appeasement: United States Foreign Policy and Germany, 1933-1938
', Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965; New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. , * ''Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country'' Yale University Press, 2018. ,
“How the South Made Hubert Humphrey Care About Race,”
*

References

External links

Official website
Living people Historians from New York (state) 1937 births Columbia College (New York) alumni Indiana University alumni Lafayette College faculty Syracuse University faculty Boston University faculty People from Brooklyn People from Newton, Massachusetts {{US-bio-stub