President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipient John Lewis Gaddis.

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy. He has been hailed as the 'Dean of Cold War Historians' by the The New York Times. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th century statesman George F. Kennan. Image File history File linksMetadata Jl_gaddis. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Jl_gaddis. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is the current First Lady of the United States. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... Robert A. Lovett Robert Abercrombie Lovett (14 September 1895 - 7 May 1986) was the fourth United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman from 1951 to 1953 and in this capacity, directed the Korean War. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... An historian is someone who writes history, a written accounting of the past. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as the father of containment and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. ...

He is best known for his critical analysis of the strategies of containment employed by the United States of America during the Cold War, and for arguing that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's personality and role in history was one of the most important causes of the Cold War. His most recent work (2005) is a study of the entire Cold War. Prior to this, his important works included "We Now Know" (1997), an analysis of the Cold War from its origins to the Cuban Missile Crisis incorporating new archival evidence from the Soviet bloc, and his revised edition of "Strategies of Containment," (2005), which analyzed in detail the theory and methods used to contain the Soviet Union from the Truman to Reagan administrations. Containment refers to the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War in which it was to stop what it called the domino effect of nations moving politically towards Soviet Union-based communism, rather than European-American-based capitalism. ... Soviet redirects here. ... “Stalin” redirects here. ...

He received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked under Robert Divine. He has taught at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he founded and directed the Contemporary History Institute. At Yale, he co-teaches the elite leadership course, Studies in Grand Strategy, and his ever-popular course on the History of the Cold War. He served as President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1992. The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is a doctoral/research university located in Austin, Texas. ... The Naval War College. ... Newport is a city in Newport County, Rhode Island, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Ohio University is a public university located in Athens, Ohio that is situated on a 1,800 acre (7. ... Location in the state of Ohio Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio County Athens Government  - Mayor Richard Abel (D) Area  - City 8. ... The Contemporary History Institute is an interdisciplinary academic research institute at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. ... The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) is the leading learned society for the academic study of US Foreign Policy History. ...

His Ph.D students teach at, among other places, the University of Virginia, Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wright State University, the University of Maryland-College Park, McGill University, the University of Arkansas, Auburn University-Montgomery, Pennsylvania State-Shenango and the University of Kentucky.

In 2005 he received the National Humanities Medal. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ...

Gaddis' most recent published book, The Cold War: A New History, examines the history and effects of the Cold War in a more removed context than previously possible.

Publications

• On Moral Equivalency and Cold War History Ethics & International Affairs Journal, Volume 10 (1996)
• The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 - (1972, 2d ed., 2000)
• Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History - (1978, 2d ed., 1990)
• Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy - (1982, 2d ed., 2005)
• The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War - (1987)
• The United States and the End of the Cold War: Reconsiderations, Implications, Provocations - (1992)
• We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History - (1997) ISBN 0-19-878071-0
• The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past - (2002)
• Surprise, Security, and the American Experience - (2004)
• The Cold War: A New History, Penguin Press, 2005. ISBN 1-59420-062-9 (US edition). The Cold War, Allen Lane, 2005. ISBN 0-7139-9912-8 (UK edition).