Rate My Professor John Cooper

His specializations encompass late 19th- and early 20th-century American political history and the South, with research and teaching interests in late 19th- and 20th-century America, American foreign policy, Civil War and Reconstruction, Southern history, 20th-century American wars, race, and reform. Current research focuses on presidential reputations in 20th-century America and the League of Nations fight. Key publications include The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard University Press, 1983), Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 (W.W. Norton, 1990), The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link (co-editor, Harlan Davidson, 1990), Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (Knopf, 2009), a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography. Cooper received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 1969-1970. He taught courses such as History 395 (United States, 1877-1914), History 397 (United States, 1914-1945), History 600 advanced seminars, and History 901 studies in American history. His scholarship has shaped understandings of the Progressive Era, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and U.S. foreign relations.