The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front

Contributors

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c o n t r i b u t o r s ........................................................... Rieko Asai is an associate professor at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, where she mainly teaches English language. She works primarily on the history of the American peace movement in the twentieth century. Her writings include ‘‘Semegiau hiroshima no kioku: 1955 nenn shikago ni okeru Hiroshima gennbaku touka bi no kinenn shuukai to sono shinnbunn houdou wo meguru ichi kousatsu [Contesting Memories of Hiroshima: The Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Hiroshima Bombing in Chicago and Its News Coverage]’’ [Rikkyo American Studies 26 (2004)]; ‘‘Commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days in the United States: A Preliminary Comparison, 1980 and 1985’’ [Theory of Information Culture 7 (2006)]; and ‘‘Gennbaku to amerika no hannkaku undo: 8 gatsu 6 ka no kinenn katsudo wo chuushinn ni [The Bomb and the U.S. Antinuclear Movement; Commemoration of August 6th]’’ [Kokugakuin Zasshi CVII, 12 (2006)]. Scott H. Bennett is an associate professor of history at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey. He holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University . At Georgian Court, he teaches courses on modern American history , peace history, and nonviolent social movements. He has published and spoken widely on peace history, radical pacifism, nonviolent social movements, and World War II conscientious objectors. He has written Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915–1923 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Studies on Peace and Con- flict Resolution [Syracuse University Press], 2003) and edited Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005). He is completing a book manuscript on the lives and World War II prison letters of radical pacifist siblings Igal and Vivien Roodenko. He is president of the Peace History Society. J. Garry Clifford is a professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and director of its graduate program. He earned his B.A. from Williams College (1964) and his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He has also taught at the University of Tennessee and Dartmouth College. For his book The Citizen Soldiers (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972), he won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. With Norman Cousins, he has edited Memoirs of a Man: Grenville Clark (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975); and with Samuel R. Spencer , Jr., he has written The First Peacetime Draft (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986). With Thomas G. Paterson, Kenneth J. Hagan, Deborah Kisatsky, and Shane Maddock, he coauthored American Foreign Relations : A History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 7th. ed., 2009). With Theodore A. Wilson, he edited Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals: Essays in Honor of Robert H. Ferrell (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007). His essays have also appeared in Gordon Martel, ed., American Foreign Relations Reconsidered (New York: Routledge, 1994); Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, eds., Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991 and 2004); and Arnold A. Offner and Theodore A. Wilson, eds., Victory in Europe, 1945 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000). He has served on the editorial board of Diplomatic History as well as on the editorial board of the Modern War Series of the University Press of Kansas. A graduate of Bowling Green University and veteran of World War II, Robert H. Ferrell received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University under the direction of Samuel Flagg Bemis. From 1953 until his retirement in 1988 he taught U.S. diplomatic history at Indiana University, where he mentored more than thirty-five Ph.D. students of his own. Beginning with Peace in Their Time (1952), which won the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, Ferrell has published more than sixty books, most notably American Diplomacy in the Great Depression (1957), The Teaching of American History in the High Schools (1964), Dear Bess (1983), Woodrow Wilson and World War I (1985), Harry S. Truman: A Life (1995), The Dying President (1998), and America’s Deadliest Battle: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (2007). He has served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 368 : Contributors Justin Hart is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University. He earned a Ph.D. in history at Rutgers University under the direction of Lloyd Gardner. He is the...