LAWRENCE S. WITTNER Department of History State University of New York Albany, New York 12222 e-mail: [email protected] http://lawrenceswittner.com EDUCATION Columbia College A.B. 1962 University of Wisconsin M.A. 1963 (History) Columbia University Ph.D. 1967 (History) EMPLOYMENT Hampton Institute, Assistant Professor of History, 1967-68 Vassar College, Assistant Professor of History, 1968-73 Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Japan, 1973-74 Columbia University, Visiting Associate Professor of History, summer 1976 State University of New York at Albany, Lecturer in History, 1974-76; Assistant Professor of History, 1976-77; Associate Professor of History, 1977-83; Professor of History, 1983-2010; Professor of History Emeritus, 2010-present PUBLICATIONS Books: • Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1941-1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Paperback edition, 1970. Revised, expanded edition published as: Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1933-1983. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. Paperback edition, 1984. (Sections reprinted in: LeRoy Ashby and Bruce Stave, eds. The Discontented Society: Interpretations of Twentieth Century American Protest. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1972. Thomas R. Frazier, ed. The Underside of American History. 4th ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Charles F. Howlett, ed. History of the American Peace Movement, 1890-2000: The Emergence of a New Scholarly Discipline. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2005.) • (Editor) MacArthur. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971. Paperback edition, 1971. 2 • Cold War America: From Hiroshima to Watergate. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Paperback edition, 1974. Revised, expanded edition: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978. (Sections reprinted in: Duane Cummins and William G. White. Combat and Consensus: The 1940s and 1950s. Encino, CA: Glencoe Publishing Company, 1980. William Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, eds. A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.) • American Intervention in Greece, 1943-1949. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. • (Associate Editor) Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1985. • One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953. (Vol. 1 of The Struggle Against the Bomb.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. Paperback edition, 1995. • (Editor, with five others) Peace/Mir: An Anthology of Historic Alternatives to War. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. Paperback edition, 1994. Russian language edition: Mir/Peace. Al'ternativy voine ot Antichnosti do knotsa mirovoi voiny. Antologiia. Moscow: Nauka Press, 1993. • Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970. (Vol. 2 of The Struggle Against the Bomb.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. Paperback edition, 1997. (Sections reprinted in: Shane J. Maddock, ed. The Nuclear Age. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.) • Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present. (Vol. 3 of The Struggle Against the Bomb.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Paperback edition, 2003. • (Co-editor, with Glen H. Stassen) Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007. Paperback edition, 2007. • Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Paperback edition, 2009. • Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2012. • What’s Going On at UAardvark? [A novel.] Albany, NY: Solidarity Press, 2013. Second edition: Solidarity Press, 2014. 3 Articles, Book Chapters, and Review-Essays: • "The National Negro Congress: A Reassessment," American Quarterly 22 (Winter 1970): 883-901. (Reprinted in: Richard Lowitt and Joseph Wall, eds. Interpreting Twentieth Century America: A Reader. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973.) • "MacArthur and the Missionaries: God and Man in Occupied Japan," Pacific Historical Review 40 (February 1971): 77-98. • (with Juliette P. Thayer) "Another Angry Decade," Columbia College Today (Summer 1971), 40-49. • "IBM and the Pentagon," Progressive 36 (February 1972): 33-36. • "MacArthur," Encyclopedia of World Biography, 7: 48-50. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. • "Muste," Encyclopedia of World Biography, 8: 38-39. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. • "Introduction" to Bertrand Russell, Ethics of War (a reprint of Russell's Justice in Wartime, 1917), 13-18. New York: Garland Publishing, 1973. • "The Historiography of the Cold War Era," American Studies News-Letter [of the Japanese Association for American Studies], No. 33 (May 1974), 1-7. • "Japanese-American Military Relations in the Postwar Era," Peace and Change 4 (Fall 1976): 64-67. • "Principles and Opportunities in American Politics," a review-essay based on Herbert Parmet's The Democrats: The Years After FDR, in Reviews in American History 4 (December 1976): 594-600. • "The War in Vietnam," pp. 392-417 in Main Problems in American History, II, eds. Milton Cantor, Dean Albertson and Howard Quint. 4th ed. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press, 1978. Slightly revised for 5th ed., 1988. • "When CIA Hearts Were Young and Gay: Planning the Cold War (Spring 1945)," Peace and Change 5 (Fall 1978): 70-76. • "American Policy Toward Greece During World War II," Diplomatic History 3 (Spring 1979): 129-49. • "The Truman Doctrine and the Defense of Freedom," Diplomatic History 4 (Spring 1980): 161-87. 4 • "How Realistic is American Diplomacy?" a review-essay based on John Stoessinger's Crusaders and Pragmatists: Movers of Modern American Foreign Policy, in Reviews in American History 9 (March 1981): 118-23. • "Freedom of Information: A Statement on Behalf of the Conference on Peace Research in History," Peace and Change 7 (Winter 1981): 127-28. • "American Policy Toward Greece, 1944-1949," pp. 229-38, 395-400 in Greece in the 1940s: A Nation in Crisis, ed. John Iatrides. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1981. • (with Charles DeBenedetti, Robert Divine and Gary Ostrower) "International Organization, Law and Peace Movements Since 1941," pp. 1107-40 in Guide to American Foreign Relations Since 1700, ed. Richard D. Burns. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 1982. • "Pursuing the `National Interest': The Illusion of Realism," a review-essay based on Norman Graebner's America as a World Power: A Realist Appraisal from Wilson to Reagan, in Reviews in American History 13 (June 1985): 282-87. • "Albert Einstein," pp. 250-53 in Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders, ed. Harold Josephson. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1985. • "Erich Fromm," pp. 306-307 in Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders, ed. Harold Josephson. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1985. • "Tactics and Strategies for the Peace Movement," pp. 72-74 in Where Do We Go From Here? ed. Marty Jezer. New York: A. J. Muste Memorial Institute, 1985. • "Eugene V. Debs: Socialist and War Resister," pp. 56-84 in Peace Heroes in Twentieth Century America, ed. Charles DeBenedetti. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. Paperback edition, 1988. • "IKV: Challenge for Peace in the Dutch Churches," Christianity and Crisis 46 (November 3, 1986): 391-94. • "Peace Movements and Foreign Policy: The Challenge to Diplomatic Historians," Diplomatic History 11 (Fall 1987): 355-70. • "The Transnational Movement Against Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1986: A Preliminary Survey," pp. 265-94 in Peace Movements and Political Cultures, eds. Charles Chatfield and Peter van den Dungen. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988. (Sections reprinted in: William Evan, War and Peace in an Age of Terrorism: A Reader. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2005.) 5 • "Losing the Disarmament Race," a review-essay based on Frances McCrea and Gerald Markle's Minutes to Midnight and Pam Solo's From Protest to Policy, in Peace and Change 15 (October 1990): 448-54. • "The Misuse of the High-Minded: The British Government's First Campaign Against CND," New Blackfriars 72 (February 1991): 56-59. (Reprinted in Catholic Herald, February 8, 1991.) • "Nuclear Weapons, Resistance, and the Nation-State System," South Asia Bulletin 11: 1-2 (1991): 136-42. • (with Sandi Cooper) "Transnational Peace Movements and Arms Control: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," pp. 491-505 in Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament, ed. Richard D. Burns. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. • "Albert Einstein and World Peace," pp. 202-207 in The Challenge of Shalom: The Jewish Tradition of Peace and Justice, eds. Murray Polner and Naomi Goodman. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1994. • "Commentary: Ten Motives and a Misunderstanding," Peace and Change 20 (January 1995): 53-59. • "Blacklisting Schweitzer," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 51 (May/June 1995): 55-61. (Reprinted in Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 3, 1995.) • "The Menace of the Maidens," Fellowship 61 (May/June 1995): 18-20. • "Merle Curti and the Development of Peace History," Peace and Change 23 (January 1998): 74-82. • "The Nuclear Threat Ignored: How and Why the Campaign Against the Bomb Disintegrated in the Late 1960s," pp. 439-58 in 1968: The World Transformed, eds. Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert, and Detlef Junker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. • "The Worldwide Movement Against Nuclear Arms: Building an Effective Transnational Organization," Peace Research 31 (November 1999): 18-25. (Reprinted in