Harvey A. DeWeerd (1902–1979) was an American

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on military affairs. DeWeerd received his bachelor's degree from Hope College, and both Master's and Doctoral degrees from the University of Michigan, where he studied under Claude H. Van Tyne. He taught at Colorado Agricultural College, Michigan State, Wittenberg College, and Denison University. From January 1938 to 1942, he served as the first professional historian to edit the ''Journal of the American Military Foundation'' which would eventually become the ''Journal of Military History'', the scholarly journal of the

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. DeWeerd served in the United States Army from December 3, 1942 to June 30, 1946. He served as an officer, assigned to edit ''Infantry Journal'', one of the U.S. Army's professional service journals. Following the war and his demobilization, he took up a previously-offered position at the

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, where he taught from the fall semester in 1946 through 1953. He joined the RAND Corporation for the 1953-1954 academic year and then stayed on full time with RAND from November 1964 onwards. He died of cancer in November 1979. His scholarly papers are held at the Library of the

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Bibliography

Publications by Harvey A. DeWeerd: *''Great Soldiers of the Two World Wars'' (New York: W.W. Norton, 1941) *"Churchill, Lloyd George, Clemenceau: The Emergence of the Civilian," in

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(ed.), ''Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler'' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1943), 287–305 *''Great Soldiers of World War II'' (New York: W.W. Norton, 1944) *Henry Adams; H. A. DeWeerd (ed.), ''The War of 1812'' (Washington, D.C.: Infantry Journal, 1944) *George C. Marshall; H. A. DeWeerd (ed.), ''Selected Speeches and Statements'' (Washington, D.C.: Infantry Journal, 1945) *''President Wilson Fights His War: World War I and the American Intervention'' (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1968)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:DeWeerd, Harvey A. American historians American military historians 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 1902 births 1979 deaths Hope College alumni University of Michigan alumni 20th-century American male writers