Thomas R. Maddux

Full-Time Faculty

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(818) 677-3551

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Sierra Tower 626

Biography

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1969

B.A., Dartmouth College, 1964

Courses Taught

HIST 270 U.S. History to 1865

HIST 370 Problems in U.S. History to 1865

HIST 484 Diplomatic History of the U.S. to 1914

HIST 485 Diplomatic History of the U.S since 1914

HIST 485A The U.S. and the Indochina Wars, 1940-1975

HIST 576 Colloquium in U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cold War

HIST 584 Colloquium in the U.S. in the 1980s Publications

Selected Publications and Presentations

Years of Estrangement: America Relations with the Soviet Union, 1933-1941 (Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1980)
“Watching Stalin Maneuver Between Hitler and the West: American Diplomats and Soviet Diplomacy, 1934-1939,” Diplomatic History 1:2 (1977): 140-54

Research and Interests

Thomas R. Maddux received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1964 and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1969. Since 1969 he has taught classes in U.S. history and U.S. international relations including special topics courses on the Cold War and the Vietnam Conflicts. He is the author of Years of Estrangement: America Relations with the Soviet Union, 1933-1941 (Tallahassee, Fl.: University Presses of Florida, 1980) as well as several articles on Soviet-U.S. relations. He has served multiple terms as chair of the Department of History and has also chaired the W.P. Whitsett Committee on California History. He is an editor for H-Diplo, an online discussion network and journal dedicated to the study of diplomatic and international history, which is affiliated with H-Net.

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of History

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