Specialties: twentieth-century U.S. history and post-World War II foreign policy and politics
Dr. Donaldson taught courses in Modern America (since 1945), Historiography and Research, U.S. History survey (since 1865), and World Civilizations. In 1996 and again in 1998 he attended the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria. During the 1991-1992 academic year, and again in 1997-98, he served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in China, teaching twentieth-century American foreign policy at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His works include The First Modern Campaign: The Presidential Election of 1960 (2007); Modern America: the Nation since 1945 (2007); Liberalism's Last Hurrah: the Presidential Campaign of 1964 (2003); American Foreign Policy: The Twentieth Century in Documents (2002); The Second Reconstruction: A History of the Modern Civil Right Movement (2000); Truman Defeats Dewey: A History of the Presidential Election of 1948 (1998); America at War Since 1945: Foreign Policy and Politics in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War (1996); Abundance and Anxiety: America, 1945-1960 (1997); and A History of African-Americans in the Military (1991).
