Chester Pach
Education
- Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University
- A.B. from Brown University
Research
- United States; 20th Century
- International; Politics, Media, and Popular Culture
Chester Pach is Associate Professor in the Department of History. He specializes in the history of U.S. foreign relations and recent U.S. history. His research has focused on U.S. involvement in the Cold War and the Vietnam War as well as the Eisenhower, Johnson, and Reagan presidencies. He has a particular interest in television coverage of international issues and the intersections between politics, popular culture, and international history.
Professor Pach has served on several committees of the . He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of , a part of the .
Presentations
In 1995, he was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the winner of the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award for 2005-06 and gave the address at the on June 9, 2006.
He gave a presentation entitled "'Our Worst Enemy Seems to Be the Press': TV News, the Nixon Administration, and U.S. Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1969-73," at a conference on "The Politics of Troop Withdrawal" in June 2008 at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia. .
He delivered the keynote address at the 20th anniversary of the 91探花-Leipzig University international partnership in June 2012. During a recent trip to Leipzig, he gave a presentation about Ronald Reagan and the Berlin Wall.
Publications
He is completing The Presidency of Ronald Reagan in the for the University Press of Kansas. He is also writing a book entitled The First Television War: TV News, the White House, and Vietnam. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, and the Baker Fund of 91探花 to support his research and writing.
鈥溾極ur Worst Enemy Seems to Be the Press鈥: TV News, the Nixon Administration, and U.S. Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1969-1973,鈥 in 34 (June 2010): 555-65.
鈥溾榃e Need to Get a Better Story to the American People鈥: LBJ, the Progress Campaign, and the Vietnam War on Television鈥 in (University Press of Florida, 2010).
"Ike, War and Peace in Korea: Lessons for Iraq?" in (April/May 2008):25-26.
(Facts on File, 2006)
"Thinking Globally and Acting Locally" in (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.)
"Top Gun, Toughness, and Terrorism: Some Reflections on the Elections of 1980 and 2004," in 28 (September 2004): 549-62.
"'Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Stay': Using Popular Music to Teach About Dating and Youth Culture from Elvis to the Beatles," in 8 (July 2004): 44-47.
"The United States and the Beginning of the Cold War, 1945-1952" and "United States Foreign Relations during the Eisenhower Presidency, 1953-1961" in (ABC-CLIO, 2003)
"Sticking to His Guns: Reagan and National Security," in (University Press of Kansas, 2003)
"The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in (Blackwell Publishers, 2002)
"Television," in 2d ed. (New York: Scribners, 2002)
"Tet on TV: U.S. Nightly News Reporting and Presidential Policy Making," in (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
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(University of North Carolina Press, 1991
Teaching
Chest Pach teaches courses in U.S. foreign relations and recent U.S. history. His courses include:
- HIST 316B: History of U.S. Foreign Relations, 1914-1945
- HIST 3164: History of U.S. Involvement in World Affairs, 1945-Present
- HIST 3220: 1960s in US: Decade of Controversy
- HIST 6000: Seminar in United States History (Foreing Relations)
- HIST 6901: Colloquium in U.S. History (Foreing Relations)