Gaddis Smith, the Larned professor emeritus of history at Yale University, is an expert in American foreign relations and maritime history. Yale redirects here. ... Look up expert in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The term is used to describe the interaction taking place among governments, when striving to establish mutual contacts, another word for diplomacy. ... From the latin maritimus, maritime refers to things relating to the sea. ... For other senses of this word, see history (disambiguation). ...

He has spent virtually his entire career at Yale. He received his bachelor's degree from the university in 1950, where he served as chairman of the Yale Daily News. In 1961, he earned his Phd in history from Yale. In over forty years of teaching at the university, he chaired the Department of History (at Yale), served as master of Pierson College and directed the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. A front page of the Yale Daily News. ... Pierson College is a residential college at Yale University, founded in 1932. ...

He is currently writing a history of the university, "Yale in the 20th Century," to be published in August 2007, and will teach a senior seminar in Yale's International Studies Department, "Oceans, Security, and Globalization in History," in the fall of 2006.

Awards

Smith received several awards from Yale college for his work there:

• 1986 - The William Clyde DeVane Medal for distinguished scholarship and teaching
• 1989 - The Harwood F. Byrnes-Richard B. Sewall Prize for Teaching Excellence
• 1997 - The Mory's Cup for service to the University

Books and other literature

Smith has authored over 200 articles, essays and reviews in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and various historical journals. He has also published six books: The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... An article is a stand-alone section of a larger written work. ... Essay, a short work that treats of a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... A review is a piece of writing that discusses the authors opinion on a piece of publication, such as a movie, video game, musical composition, or novel. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ... A journal (through French from late Latin diurnalis, daily) is a daily record of events or business. ...

• American Diplomacy in the Second World War
• Morality, Reason and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years
• The Aims of American Foreign Policy
• Dean Acheson, Britain's Clandestine Submarines: 1914-1915
• The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine: 1945-1993