John Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, where he teaches courses on the Cold War, grand strategy, biography, historical methods, and time travel.  His most recent books include The Landscape of History:  How Historians Map the Past (2002), Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004), The Cold War:  A New History (2005), a new edition of Strategies of Containment:  A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (2005), George F. Kennan:  An American Life (2011), and On Grand Strategy (2018).  He’s currently writing a microhistory of the small Texas town in which he grew up. Professor Gaddis has received two awards for undergraduate teaching at Yale, as well as the National Humanities Medal and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for biography.