Ferrell, Robert H.

Variant names

Dates:

Birth 1921-05-08

Nationality: Americans,

Language: English,

Biographical notes:

Historian; interviewee b. 1921.

From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Ferrell : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122631937

Robert H. Ferrell (b. 1921) is an American historian and author of several books on Harry S. Truman and the diplomatic history of the United States. He received a B.S. in Education from Bowling Green State University in 1946 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1951. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. Ferrell began his career at Indiana University as an Assistant Professor in 1953, subsequently rising to the post of Distinguished Professor of History in 1974.

From the guide to the Ferrell mss., ca. 1940-1999, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington))