Prof.dr. A. (Alonzo) Hamby
Education
Southwest Missouri State College, 1956-57; Southeast Missouri State College, 1957-60, B.A.; Columbia University, 1960-61, M.A.; University of Missouri, 1962-65, Ph.D.
Employment
Ohio University: Assistant Professor, 1965-69; Associate Professor, 1969-75; Professor, 1975-96; Distinguished Professor, 1996- . Leiden University: Raymond and Beverly Sackler Professor of American History, 2004-2005
Teaching Fields
U.S. History, 1607-present (survey and undergraduate honors seminar); Twentieth-century America; American Historiography; Contemporary History
Study and Research Awards
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1960-61; National Defense Education Act Fellow, 1962-64; University of Missouri Wilson Fellow, 1964-65; Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grants, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969; American Philosophical Society Grant, 1967; Ohio University Research Council Grants, 1967, 1976, 1983; Ohio University Baker Fund Awards, 1969, 1986; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1972-73; Evans Research Fellow, Harry S. Truman Library Institute, 1973-74; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1985; Harry S. Truman Library Institute Senior Fellowship, 1986-87; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1991-92.
Other Honours
David D. Lloyd Prize, Harry S. Truman Library Institute, 1974; Ohio Academy of History Publication Award, 1974; Phi Alpha Theta First Book Award, 1974--all for Beyond the New Deal; Phi Beta Kappa, Lambda of Ohio, honorary membership, 1977; Southeast Missouri State University Outstanding History Alumnus, 1985, and College of Liberal Arts Alumni Merit Award, 1990; Herbert Hoover Book Award, 1996, and Harry S. Truman Book Award, 1996--both for Man of the People; Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Service Award, 1998
Professional Service
Ohio Academy of History: Chair Publication Award Committee, 1976-77; Executive Council, 1986-88, 1990-91; President-Elect, 1988-89; President, 1989-90 Organization of American Historians: Joint Committee on Historians and Archives, 1975-78; Chair, Committee on Access to Documents and Open Information, 1991-92 American Historical Association: Nominating Committee, 1981-83 Southern Historical Association: Membership Committee, 1982-83 Ohio Historical Records Preservation Advisory Board, 1978-86 Phi Beta Kappa, Lambda of Ohio: Membership Secretary, 1981-82; Treasurer, 1982-83; Vice President, 1983-84; President, 1984-85; Executive Committee, 1985-86; chapter delegate, National Triennial Council, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997 National Phi Beta Kappa Society: Senator (East Central District), 1997- ; Publications Committee, 1997-2000; Committee on Qualifications, 1997- ; Chair, Policy Committee, 2000- ; Chair, Publications Committee, 2003- ; Executive Committee, 2000- Truman Library Institute: Research Committee, 2001- Ohio University: Faculty Senate, 1980-83; University Compensation Committee, 1980-82; University Graduate Council, 1993-96; College of Arts and Sciences Staffing Advisory Committee, 1983-84, 1987-89; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, 1978-80, 1987-88, 1995-96 ; Chair, Department of History, 1980-83.
Invited Lecturers
American Presidency Lecture Series, SUNY--Geneseo, 1976; Smithsonian Associates Lecture Series, 1977; Niagara University, 1978, 1989; Carroll Lecturer, Mary Baldwin College, 1979; Ohio Academy of History Keynote Lecture, 1979; Arnett Lecturer, Emporia State University, 1983; Keynote Speaker and Seminar Leader (History Section), Sapporo American Studies Seminar, 1983; Truman Centennial Symposium, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1984; Conference on Leadership and the Modern Presidency, Princeton University, 1987; Congressional Research Service Symposium, Library of Congress, 1989; Harry S. Truman Scholarship Class of '92, Truman Scholarship Institute; Smithsonian Resident Associates, 1992; U.S. Air War College, 1992; Missouri Conference on History, 1993; University of Dayton, 1993; Conference on the End of World War II, [Museum of Flight/University of Washington] , 1995; University of South Florida, 1995; Clinch Valley College; Southeast Missouri State University, 1996; University of Leiden, 1996; Duquesne History Forum, 1996; Truman State University, 1997; Truman Doctrine Conferences, Washington, D.C. (American Hellenic Association) and St. Louis, Mo. (University of Missouri), 1997; Harry S. Truman Library, 1997; Purdue University, 1998; Southeast Missouri State University, 1998; University of Washington, 1998; University of Virginia, 2004; Missouri Southern University, 2004.
Publications
author, Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism, 1945-1953 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973).
author, The Imperial Years: The United States since 1939 (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1976).
author, Liberalism and Its Challengers: F.D.R. to Reagan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). [2nd ed., 1992, subtitled F.D.R. to Bush]
author, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
author, For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s
(New York: The Free Press, 2004) [publication date, January 12, 2004]
editor, The New Deal: Analysis and Interpretation (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1969; 2nd ed., New York: Longman, 1980).
editor and contributor, Harry S. Truman and the Fair Deal (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1974).
co-editor and contributor, Historians, Archivists, and Access to the Papers of Recent Public Figures (Bloomington, IN: Organization of American Historians, 1978).
Present Research: I envision two books: an accessible mid-sized (c. 500 pages) biography of Franklin Roosevelt and a follow-up to my just-published For the Survival of Democracy which would carry the themes it established through World War II. I am not certain at this point which will come first.
Thirty articles published or forthcoming in scholarly journals or magazines and collections of essays. In addition, about three dozen shorter pieces for encyclopedias and other reference works and approximately 125 book reviews in scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines, including Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review, and Wall Street Journal.