Frank E. Vandiver

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Frank E. Vandiver

Education University of Texas, M.A., 1949
Tulane University, Ph.D., 1951
Oxford University, M.A. by Decree, 1963

Office Mosher Institute for International Policy Studies Texas A&M University Blocker 232X 2400 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-2400

Professional(1981-present)
Distinguished University Professor and holder of the John H. and Sara Lindsey Chair in Humanities, Texas A&M University, 1988.
Advisory Board of Trustees, The American University in Cairo, 1998-present
Acting President, The American University in Cairo, 1997-1998
Chairman of the Board, The American University in Cairo, 1992-1998
President of Texas A&M University, 1981-1988
Chief Advisory Editor, The Papers of Jefferson Davis, 1963-present


Books Published (1995-present)
Editor, Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks; A Guide to the National Park Sites, Random House, 1996.
Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson’s War, Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
President’s Address, The American University in Cairo, AUC, 1998.
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the Civil War, Doubleday, 1999; Paperback, 2000.
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About World War II, Doubleday/Broadway Books, 2002; paperback, 2003.


Contributions (1995-present)
Foreword, The Diaries of Josiah Gorgas, New Edition, Sarah Wiggins, ed., University of Alabama Press, 1995.
Introduction, My Experiences in the World War, John J. Pershing, Da Capo Press, 1995.
“Haig and Pershing,” Facing Armageddon: Human Reactions to the First World War, Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle, eds., Leo Cooper, 1996.
“Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig,” in Passchendaele in Perspective: The Third Battle of Ypres, Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle, editors, Leo Cooper, 1997.
“P. G. T. Beauregard,” “Braxton Bragg,” “Battle of Chancellorsville (1863),” “Battle of Gettysburg (1863),” “Joseph E. Johnston,” “George Gordon Meade,” “John J. Pershing,” “Eddie Rickenbacker,” and “Edwin M. Stanton,” in The Oxford Companion to American Military History, J. W. Chambers II, ed., Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Foreword, Al-Alamein Revisited: The Battle of Al-Alamein and its Historical Implications. Proceedings of a Symposium Held on 2 May 1998, at the American University in Cairo. Jill Edwards, editor. Cairo: AUC, 2000.
“Twentieth Century Warfare,” for World 2000: A Conference on Teaching World History and World Geography, a Symposium Held on February 11-12, 2000, Austin, Texas. Internet, 2000.
“Douglas Haig, 1861-1928,” “US Civil War: 1863, Gettysburg and Vicksburg Campaigns,” and “William Westmoreland,” in Reader’s Guide to Military History, Charles Messenger, ed., Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
“Lightning Strikes Twice: Foch and Eisenhower as Supreme Commanders,” in The Great War, 1914-45: Volume I: Lightning Strikes Twice, Peter Liddle, John Bourne, and Ian Whitehead, eds., HarperCollins, 2001.


Published Addresses (1990s-present)
“The American Civil War,” XVIII International Congress of Military History, Turin, Italy, 1993.
“The American Civil War,” XIX International Congress of Military History, Warsaw, Poland, 1994.
“The Country Lincoln Made,” speech for Lincoln Association Birthday, 1995; also for Festschrift in honor of Professor Raimondo Luraghi, Turin, Italy, 1996.
“The Long Loom of Lincoln, “ Ninth Annual Gerald McMurtry Lecture, Indianapolis, 1996.


Papers and Speeches (2001 to present)
“John J. Pershing and West Point,” Making History—West Point at 200 Years, conference celebrating the United States Military Academy’s bicentennial, March 8, 2002.
“Texas - West or South?” Texas Historical Commission 2002 Annual Historic Preservation Conference, April 19, 2002.


Works in Progress
“How America Has Gone to War” begun October 2002, to be completed Summer 2003.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig (biography), projected for 2004.
Collection of essays on Jefferson Davis, TAMU Press.