Office Hours:
On leave academic year 2007-2008

Travis Jacobs
Fletcher D. Proctor Professor of History
Painter House 001
Phone: (802) 443 - 5315
Email: tjacobs@middlebury.edu
Years at Midd: since 1965
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Princeton University; M.A., PhD, Columbia University.

Areas of Specialization

20th Century America; History of American Foreign Relations; American Historiography; Vermont History.

Courses Taught

20th-Century America, 1925-1955; 20th-Century America, 1955-1990; Writing and Research in American History; Readings in American History: Post-War America; America and the Vietnam War; The Roosevelt Era and Its Legacy; 20th Century Society and War; Lawyers and American Society; America and World War II; Writing and Research in American History.

Books Published

America and the Winter War, 1939-1940 (Garland Press, 1981).

Navigating the Rapids, 1918-1971: From the Papers of Adolf A. Berle (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973).

Editor, Middlebury College General Catalogue: Bicentennial Edition (Publishing Concepts, 2000).

Eisenhower at Columbia (Transaction Publishers, 2000).

Awards and Achievements

2004 Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant Program for teaching in Tunisia