Historian and college administrator.
From the description of Frank E. Vandiver papers, 1947-1977. (Rice University). WorldCat record id: 28499353
1925
Frank E. Vandiver born December 9 to Harry Schultz and Maude
Folmsbee Everson Vandiver.
1945
Appointed Historian for Army Service Forces Depot, Civil
Service, San Antonio.
1946
1947
Rockefeller Fellow in Humanities at U.T.
1947
Edited
The Civil War Diary of General Josiah
Gorgas.
Edited
Confederate Blockade Running Through
Bermuda, 1861-1865.
Edited
Letters and Cargo
Manifests.
1947
1948
Rockefeller Fellow in American Studies at U.T.
1949
Earned M.A. at U.T.
1949
1951
Teaching Assistant at Tulane University.
1951
Appointed Historian for Air University, Civil Service, Maxwell
Air Force Base, Alabama.
Earned Ph.D. at Tulane.
1951
1952
Instructor for Extension Division, U. of Alabama.
1952
Married Carol Sue Smith, April 19.
Published
Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas
and Confederate Ordnance.
1952
1953
Instructor at Washington University.
1953
Received research grant from the American Philosophical
Society.
1953
1955
Assistant Professor of History at Washington University, St.
Louis.
1954
Received research grant from the American Philosophical
Society.
Edited
Proceedings of First Confederate
Congress, 4th Session.
1954
1957
Professor of History at Louisiana State University, Summer
Sessions.
1955
1956
Guggenheim Fellow Assistant Professor of History at Rice
University.
1956
Published
Rebel Brass: The Confederate Command
System.
1956
1958
Associate Professor of History at Rice University.
1957
Awarded Huntington Library Research Grant.
Published
Mighty Stonewall.
1958
1965
Professor of History at Rice University.
[1959]
Became member of the Civil War Centennial Commission's Advisory
Council.
1959
Edited
Proceedings of Second Confederate
Congress.
1960
Received research grant from the American Philosophical
Society.
Published
Fields of Glory with W. H.
Nelson.
Published
Jubal's Raid.
1961
Professor of History at U. of Arizona, Summer Session.
Awarded Huntington Library Research Grant.
1962
Published
Basic History of the
Confederacy.
1962
1963
Served as Chairman of the History and Political Science Dept.,
Rice University.
1963
Harman Lecturer at Air Force Academy.
M.A. from Oxford University.
1963
1964
Harmsworth Professor of American History, Oxford
University.
1964
Published
Jefferson Davis and the Confederate
State.
Edited
The Idea of the South.
1964
1966
Served as Master of Margaret Root Brown College, Rice
University.
1965
1979
Harris Masterson Jr. Professor of History, Rice
University.
1967
Keese Lecturer, U. of Chattanooga.
1968
1969
Served as Chairman of the History Dept., Rice
University.
1969
1970
Served as Acting-President of Rice University.
1969
1974
Member of the Advisory Council, Office Chief Military History
Dept., Army
1970
Published
Their Tattered Flags: The Epic of the
Confederacy.
Received Harry S. Truman Award, Kansas City Civil War Round
Table.
Received Jefferson Davis Award, Confederate Memorial Lit.
Society.
Received Fletcher Pratt Award, New York Civil War Round
Table.
1970
1972
Executive Director, American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
of Texas.
1970
1979
Provost, Rice University.
1972
1978
Member of National Council for Humanities.
1973
Member of Board of Editors, U.S. Grant Papers.
1973
1974
Visiting Professor of Military History, U.S. Military
Academy.
1974
Received First Outstanding Alumnus Award from Tulane
University Graduate School.
Received Civilian Service Medal, Army.
Fortenbaugh Lecturer at Gettysburg College.
1975
Published
The Southwest: South or
West?.
Named Honorary President of Occidental University, St.
Louis
1977
Published
Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J.
Pershing.
Received H.H.D. (hon.) from Austin College.
1978
National Book Award Finalist.
1979
1981
President of North Texas State University.
1981
President of Texas A&M University.
From the guide to the Frank E. Vandiver papers MS 348., 1947 - 1977, (Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX)
Dr. Frank E. Vandiver, Harris Masterson, Jr., Professor of History, was appointed Rice University Provost in 1970. He served until 1980. The vice-presidential title was added in 1975.
Dr. Vandiver, one of the nation’s foremost military historians, received a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Texas in 1949, and his Ph.D. from Tulane University in 1951. He was awarded a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Oxford in 1963.
Dr. Vandiver came to Rice University in 1955. He served as Rice University’s acting president between 1969 and 1970, the year he was appointed Provost. He also served as Chairman of the History Department. In 1972 he started a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities, the policy-making arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In January 1973, the Secretary of the Army appointed Dr. Vandiver to a five-year term as chairman of the United States Army Military History Research Collection Advisory Committee, which oversees one of the nation’s most important military history collection efforts. In 1969 Dr. Vandiver also served on the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee and in 1971, he was named to the Fort Leavenworth Hall of Fame Selection Committee. He taught Civil War History for two years at Oxford in England. He also served as Visiting Professor of Military History at the United States Military Academy at West Point, 1973-1974.
While Dr. Vandiver was at West Point (1973-74), Dr. Joseph Cooper, Professor of Political Science, was appointed acting provost by President Hackerman. He became a member of the Rice faculty in 1967. He was a graduate of Harvard where he received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees. He served as chairman of the Department of Political Science from 1967 to 1972 and was the founding dean of the School of Social Sciences from 1979-88. He is a specialist on the U. S. Congress and has appeared as a witness before Congressional committees on several occasions. In 1976 Dr. Cooper served as staff director of the U. S. House Commission on Administrative Review in Washington, D.C.
From the guide to the Rice University Provost's Office Records: Provost Frank E. Vandiver & Acting Provost Joseph Cooper Rice UA Provost Vandiver & Cooper., 1970-80, (Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX)
