Dr. E. Timothy Smith, Ph.D.

E. Timothy Smith taught history at Barry University for 36 years and was Chair of the Department of History and Political Science from 1996-2007. He received his B.A. from Manchester College (now University), majoring in history and political science. He received his MA and Ph.D. from Kent State University in history and focused his study on U.S. Diplomatic History. Prior to coming to Barry, he taught at Wesleyan College in Georgia and several colleges in Ohio. While at Barry he taught a wide variety of history courses including U.S. History Surveys, U.S. Diplomatic History I and II, U.S. Since 1945, U.S. from the Gilded Age to World War II, African American History Since Reconstruction, America in the 1960s, Western Civilization I and II, The Meaning of History, and the Senior Seminar. At Barry Dr. Smith served on numerous committees and was the faculty advisor for Phi Alpha Theta and Phi Alpha Delta. Dr. Smith is the author of two books and the co-editor of a third. In addition, he has published articles in the journals Diplomatic History and Peace and Change, in various encyclopedias, and published numerous chapters in books. Dr. Smith has also published reviews of books in The American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, Peace and Change, History: Reviews of New Books, The Historian, International History Review, Choice, and, on the internet, for H-Diplo, H-1960s, and H-Pol. Through the years he presented papers at various conferences including several at the Peace History Society’s biennial conferences, a Truman Library conference on NATO, the Southern Historical Association conference, the Ohio Valley History Conference, and the Florida Conference of Historians conferences. He also presented papers at two international conferences on NATO in Italy. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Peace History Society, was Secretary of the organization, and was editor of the Society’s Newsletter. He remains active in the Peace History Society. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Opposition Beyond the Water's Edge: Liberal Internationalists, Pacifists and Containment, 1945-1953 (Greenwood Press, 1999). The Romance of History: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Kaplan (Kent State University Press, 1997). Co-edited with Scott L. Bills. The United States, Italy, and NATO, 1947-1952 (St. Martin's Press, 1991). ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS "The Roots of the Peace Corps: Youth Volunteer Service in the 1950s," Peace and Change 41 (April 2016), 221-254. "Cold War: The Origins (1917-1947," Cold War: Conflicts (1947-1987), and "Cuban Missile Crisis," in Nigel J. Young (ed.), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace (Oxford University Press,2010), pp. 338-342, 342-345, 518-521. "From Miami to Quebec and Beyond: Opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas," in Peace and Change 29 (April 2004), 221-249. "Gli Stati Uniti D'America Ed Il Trattato Di Pace con L'Italia," (translated from English) in Romain H. Rainero and Giuliano Manzari (eds.), L'Italia DelDopoguerra: Il Trattato Di Pace Con L'Italia (Commissione Italiana Di Storia Militare, 1998), pp.17-27. "Beyond the Water's Edge: Liberal Internationalist and Pacifists Opposition to NATO," in Scott L. Bills and E. Timothy Smith (eds.), The Romance of History: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Kaplan (Kent State University Press, 1997), 142-166. "The Disarming and Rearming of Italy," in Richard Dean Burns (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (Schribner's, 1993) II: 793-800. "United States Security and the Integration of Italy into the Western Bloc, 1947-1949," in Francis H. Heller and John R. Gillingham (eds.), NATO: The Founding of the Atlantic Alliance and the Integration of Europe (St. Martin's Press, 1992), 73-97. "From Disarmament to Rearmament: The United States and the Revision of the Italian Peace Treaty of 1947," Diplomatic History 13 (Summer 1989), 359-382. "U.S. Security and Italy: The Extension of NATO to the Mediterranean, 1945-1949," in Lawrence S. Kaplan, Robert W. Clawson and Raimondo Luraghi (eds.), NATO and the Mediterranean (Scholarly Resources, 1985), 137-156. "The Fear of Subversion: The United States and the Inclusion of Italy in the North Atlantic Treaty," Diplomatic History 7 (Spring 1983), 139-155.