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(1933-2021) Historian. Walter LaFeber was born in Walkerton, Indiana, and died in Ithaca, New York. He was a professor at Cornell University.

Full Name

Walter LaFeber

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline


1933

BIRTH

Walter Frederick LaFeber was born in Walkerton, Indiana, on August 30, 1933.

1959

OTHER

Mr. LaFeber began teaching at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1959.

1963

LITWORK

The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898
Cornell University Press

Nonfiction.

1967

LITWORK

America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-1966
John Wiley & Sons

Nonfiction.

1973

LITWORK

Creation of the American Empire: U. S. Diplomatic History
Rand McNally
0528663461 / 978-0528663468
Nonfiction written with Lloyd C. Gardner and Thomas J. McCormick.

1978

LITWORK

The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective
Oxford University Press
0195023609 / 978-0195023602
Nonfiction.

1983

LITWORK

Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America
W. W. Norton & Co.

Nonfiction.

1989

LITWORK

The American Age: U. S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since 1750
W. W. Norton Co.
0393026299 / 978-0393026290
Nonfiction.

1997

LITWORK

The Clash: U. S. - Japanese Relations Throughout History
W. W. Norton & Co.

Nonfiction.

1999

LITWORK

Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
0393047474 / 978-0393047479
Nonfiction.

2005

LITWORK

The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
0742543919 / 978-0742543911
Nonfiction.

2021

DEATH

Walter LaFeber died at an assisted living facility in Ithaca, New York, on March 9, 2021.

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