Welcome to the Home Page of Robert Griffith 

Robert Griffith Professor of History & Chair Department of History American University 139 Battelle Tompkins 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. Washington, D.C.  20016-8038 Tel: 202-885-2401, -2419 Fax: 202-885-6166 E-Mail: bgriff@american.edu Office Hours (Fall 2009):   Mondays & Thursdays, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. and by appointment.
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  History 481.002 : Major Seminar I.  Wednesdays, 2:10-4:50. Room: Ward 113.

  Undergraduate Students seeking advice on the history major, minor and other matters, contact the Main History Office (Battelle Tompkins 137; telephone: 202-885-2401; e-mail at: history@american.edu.

  New, continuing or prospective graduate students contact Main History Office: Battelle Tompkins 137; telephone: 202-885-2401; e-mail at: history@american.edu.

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A Brief Biography

Curriculum Vitae

Family Links

   Major Problems in American History Since 1945 (3nd edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2007).  Co-edited with Paula Baker.  

  "Un-Tangling the Web of Cold War History: Or, How One Historian Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet," Journal of Multi-Media History (Vol. 3, 2000).  (Published in March, 2001).
 
  "The Cultural Turn in Cold War Studies," Reviews in American History (March, 2001), 150-157.  

   Film Review, "Ordinary Americans: The Red Scare," in the Journal of American History (December, 2000), 1163-4.  Book Review, I Was a Communist for the FBI: The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic, in Journal of American History (June, 2002).  Book Review, Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000, in Journal of Southern History (August, 2003).  

  Digital Edition: The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate (1970, 1987), has been republished in a digital edition (2000), available to members and subscribing institutions via netLibrary.  The Politics of Fear has also been selected as one of 500 history books to be included in the first stage of the History e-book project of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

A Talk About Teaching: Notes of a Recovering Administrator: Some Thoughts on Teaching
 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE SYLLABI ARE NO LONGER ACTIVE AND THAT
NOT ALL LINKS IN THEM HAVE BEEN MAINTAINED.

History 752:  History 752.001: Research Seminar in U.S. History (Spring 2006)
History 744: The Historian's Craft  (Fall, 2005)
History 480: The Major Seminar I,  (Fall, 2007); History 481:The Major Seminar II. (Spring 2008)
History 207: History 207.001: The United States since 1945.  (Spring, 2009).
Honors 300: Postmodern America: Excavating the Recent American Past.
History 332/632:History in the Digital Age. (Fall, 2003, Spring 2002)
History 728: Colloquium in U.S. History since 1865 (Spring, 2001)
History 387/687: America and the Cold War: A Seminar (Fall 2,000)
History 296: The United States and Vietnam (Spring,2000)
History 500: The United States since 1945 (A graduate readings seminar)(Spring,2000)
History 296:  Modern American Presidents (Fall, 1999)
History 206: The United States From Emancipation Through World War II (Fall, 1998)
History 500: New Approaches to Teaching Recent U.S. History (Fall, 1998)