Randall Bennett Woods (born October 10, 1944 ) is an American historian. His research focuses on the history of the United States, as well as its foreign policy history.
Woods has been the John A. Cooper Professor of History at University of Arkansas since 1984.
Life
Woods graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. After completing his doctorate, Woods began teaching at the University of Arkansas, serving as an assistant professor from 1972 to 1977, an associate professor from 1977 to 1979, a professor from 1979 to 1995, and a distinguished professor since 1995.
He was Stanley Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College from 2009 to 2010 . In 2012, he was Mellon Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University. From 2013 to 2014, he was John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford .
His book Fulbright: A Biography won the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1996 . It was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award .
His work appeared in American Heritage.
Works
- Woods, Randall Bennett (1979). The Roosevelt Foreign-policy Establishment and the "good Neighbor". Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0188-2.
- Woods, Randall Bennett; Jones, Howard (1994). Dawning of the Cold War. Chicago, Ill: I. R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-047-4.
- Woods, Randall Bennett (1995-06-30). Fulbright. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-48262-2. OCLC 71347489.
- Woods, Randall Bennett (1998-02-13). J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58800-3.
- Woods, Randall Bennett (2005-03-07). Quest for Identity. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54997-4.
- Woods, Randall Bennett (August 2006). LBJ. New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83458-0. OCLC 65820366.
- Woods, Randall Bennett (July 2008). A Changing of the Guard. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-5941-4.
- Woods, Randall B. (2013-04-09). Shadow Warrior. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02194-9.
- Woods, Randall Bennett (2021-10-08). A Black Odyssey. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-3180-3.
- Woods, R. (2024). John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-593-18725-8.
References
- "Woods, Randall Bennett 1944- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- "Distinguished Historian Randall Woods to Speak on John Quincy Adams". University of Arkansas News. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- "Faculty | History | University of Arkansas". history.uark.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- "Randall B. Woods". Revisiting The Great Society: the Role of Government from FDR and LBJ to Today. 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- "Author: Woods B. Randall(Randall B. Woods)". www.americanheritage.com. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- Brinkley, Alan (2006-08-20). "The Making of a War President". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- Woods, Randall B. (2016-04-05). "How the Great Society Reforms of the 1960s Were Different From the New Deal". TIME. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- "Professor's book on 36th president portrays 'tragic' LBJ | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette". www.nwaonline.com. 2016-05-22. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- "Book review: 'Shadow Warrior: The Life of William Egan Colby,' by Randall B. Woods". Dallas News. 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- Thomas, Evan (2013-05-03). "The Gray Man". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- Lengel, Edward G. (July 2, 2024). "'John Quincy Adams' Review: Standing on Principle". WSJ.