Robert Hugh Ferrell
Robert Hugh Ferrell (May 8, 1921 – August 8, 2018)[3] was an American historian. He authored more than 60 books on topics including the U.S. presidency, World War I, and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy. One of the country's leading historians,[4] Ferrell was widely considered the preeminent authority on the administration of Harry S. Truman,[5] and also wrote books about half a dozen other 20th-century presidents. He was thought by many in the field to be the "dean of American diplomatic historians", a title he disavowed.[6]
For persons of a similar name, see Robert Farrell (disambiguation).
Robert Hugh Ferrell
May 8, 1921
August 8, 2018 (aged 97)
American
Lila Sprout Ferrell[2]
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The United States and the Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1951)
Awards[edit]
In addition to the John Addison Porter Prize and George Louis Beer Prize for his early work on the Kellogg-Briand Pact, Ferrell received the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Norman and Laura Graebner Award in 1998, which recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement by a senior historian of United States foreign relations.[35] In 2002, Ferrell was given the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award for editing a trio of memoirs by soldier William S. Triplet, A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne, A Colonel in the Armored Divisions, and In the Philippines and Okinawa.[36]
Personal life and death[edit]
His wife, Lila, died in 2002.[5] They had a daughter, Carolyn.[2][37]: vii [38]: xi He was an inveterate collector of books, owning more than 10,000 volumes.[3]
He died of heart disease in Chelsea, Michigan at age 97.[4]
Ferrell's papers, writings and correspondence, comprising 200,000 items, are archived at Indiana University's Lilly Library.[39]