Walter LaFeber was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Department of History at Cornell University. He is one of the United States' most distinguished historians, a revisionist, of the nation's Foreign Relations. The son of a grocer, he received his BA from Hanover College in 1955, his MA from Stanford University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1959, after which Cornell hired him. LaFeber is past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a... member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also served on numerous scholarly editorial boards and the Advisory Committee to the Historical Division of the Department of State. His The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 received the Albert J. Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association; Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America received the Gustavus Meyers Prize, and The Clash: U.S.
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