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Spencer C. Tucker

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Spencer C. Tucker
BornSpencer Coakley Tucker
(1937-09-20) September 20, 1937 (age 85)[1]
Buffalo, NY[1]
Alma materVirginia Military Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A., Ph.D.)
Notable worksThe American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. 6 vols.; Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring.
SpouseBeverly Blount[1]

Spencer C. Tucker is a Fulbright scholar, retired university professor, and author of works on military history. He taught history at Texas Christian University for 30 years and held the John Biggs Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute for six years.

Education and career

Tucker graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, earning a B.A. in 1959.[1][2] He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, which he used to study at the University of Bordeaux, France from 1959 to 1960.[1] Tucker went on to earn a master's degree (1962) and a doctorate degree (1966) in modern European history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1][2] From 1965 to 1967, during the Vietnam War era,[3] Tucker was a captain in the U.S. Army and served as an intelligence analyst in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence at The Pentagon.[1][2][3]

Tucker taught history at Texas Christian University from 1967 to 1997.[1][4] From 1992 through his departure in 1997, he was chairman of the department.[1][5] Tucker then went on to hold the John Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute from 1997 to 2003[4][6] before he retired from teaching. As a VMI full professor, Tucker was a colonel in the Virginia Militia Unorganized.[7] Tucker is now the Senior Fellow in Military History for ABC-CLIO.[8] He was also editor of a series of monographs on decisive battles of the twentieth century for Indiana University Press, with 25 books in the series published.

Tucker was an active member of the Society for Military History and the North American Society for Oceanic History for years.[5][9][10]

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University of Bordeaux

University of Bordeaux

The University of Bordeaux is a public university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is the flagship of the University of North Carolina system. After being chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States. Among the claimants, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the only one to have held classes and graduated students as a public university in the eighteenth century.

Vietnam War

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Society for Military History

Society for Military History

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North American Society for Oceanic History

North American Society for Oceanic History

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Awards

Tucker, an author on military and naval history, has written or edited as of June 2021 a total of 70 books in those subject areas.[4] Tucker's biography of Stephen Decatur, Jr., Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring, won the Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt Prize for best book in naval history in 2004. Tucker has received two John Lyman Book Awards from the North American Society for Oceanic History: in 1989, for Arming the Fleet, and 2000, for Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters. He has won the Society for Military History award for best reference work three times, the most times that it has been presented to any author! for his Encyclopedia of the Cold War in 2008, the Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars in 2010, and The American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection (2014). The last work was also recognized with the 2014 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, Reference. Many of his encyclopedias have also been recognized with awards by Booklist and by the Reference and User Association of the American Library Association. The American Revolutionary War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection won both the 2018 Outstanding Reference Source award of the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association and the Distinguished Writing Award for Research by the Army Historical Foundation. World War I: A Country-by-Country Guide was awarded Honorable Mention for the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize for the best historical work published in English in 2019, by the World War One Historical Association. The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection was awarded the Dartmouth Medal by the American Library Association for the outstanding reference work published in 2020.

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John Lyman Book Awards

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The John Lyman Book Awards are given annually by the North American Society for Oceanic History to recognise excellence in published books making a major contribution to the study and understanding of maritime and naval history. They are named after Professor John Lyman of the University of North Carolina.

North American Society for Oceanic History

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The North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) is the national organization in the United States of America for professional historians, underwater archeologists, archivists, librarians, museum specialists and others working in the broad field of maritime history. NASOH is an affiliated organization of the American Historical Association.

Society for Military History

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The Society for Military History is a United States–based international organization of scholars who research, write, and teach military history of all time periods and places. It includes naval history, air power history, and studies of technology, ideas, and homefronts. It publishes the quarterly refereed The Journal of Military History.

Army Historical Foundation

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Army Historical Foundation is the designated fundraising institution for the National Museum of the United States Army. The foundation also has given out awards to authors of books on military history topics since 1997. The awards are known as the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards. It publishes the quarterly journal On Point.

Booklist

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Personal life

Tucker lives in Lexington, Virginia with his wife, Dr. Beverly Tucker, also an author, and their dachshund, Sophie.

Source: "Spencer C. Tucker", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, December 25th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_C._Tucker.

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Bibliography

Books written and edited by Spencer Tucker:

  • Arming the Fleet: U.S. Navy Ordnance in the Muzzle-loading Era (1989)
  • The Jefferson Gunboat Navy (1993)
  • The European Powers in the First World War, An Encyclopedia (1996); paperback ed. (1999)
  • Injured Honor: The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, June 22, 1807 (1996)
  • Raphael Semmes and the Alabama (1996)
  • The Big Guns: Civil War Heavy Ordnance (1997)
  • The Great War, 1914-18 (1998)
  • Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. 3 vols (1998)
  • Vietnam (1999)
  • Andrew Hull Foote, Civil War Admiral (2000); paperback ed. (2018)
  • Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. 1 vol. (2000)
  • Encyclopedia of the Korean War. 3 vols. (2000)
  • Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Naval Warfare (2000)
  • Who's Who in Twentieth-Century Warfare (2001)
  • A Short History of the Civil War at Sea (2001)
  • Unconditional Surrender: The Capture of Forts Henry and Donelson (2001)
  • Encyclopedia of the Korean War. 1 vol. (2002)
  • Encyclopedia of Naval Warfare. 3 vols. (2002)
  • Brigadier General John D. Imboden: Confederate Commander in the Shenandoah (2002)
  • Encyclopedia of U.S. Military History. 3 vols. (2003)
  • The Second World War (2003)
  • Tanks: An Illustrated History of their Impact (2004)
  • Encyclopedia of World War II. 5 vols. (2004)
  • Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring (2004)
  • Encyclopedia of World War I. 5 vols. (2005)
  • Blue and Gray Navies: The Civil War Afloat (2006)
  • Encyclopedia of the Cold War. 5 vols. (2007)
  • Encyclopedia of Arab-Israeli Conflict. 4 vols. (2008)
  • Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts. 3 vols. (2008)
  • Rise and Fight Again: The Life of Nathanael Greene (2009); paperback ed. (2018)
  • Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. 3 vols. (2009)
  • U.S. Leadership in Wartime: Clashes, Controversy, and Compromise. 2 vols. (2009)
  • A Global Chronology of Conflict. 6 vols. (2009)
  • Encyclopedia of the Korean War. 3 vols. (2010)
  • Encyclopedia of U.S. Wars in the Middle East. 5 vols. (2010)
  • Civil War Naval Encyclopedia. 2 vols. (2010)
  • Battles that have changed History (2010)
  • Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Rev. ed. 4 vols. (2011)
  • Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars. 3 vols. (2011)
  • World War II at Sea, An Encyclopedia. 2 vols. (2011)
  • Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. 3 vols. (2012)
  • Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War. 3 vols. (2012)
  • Almanac of American Military History. 4 vols. (2012)
  • American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection 6 vols. (2013)
  • Encyclopedia of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency. 1 vol. (2013)
  • Battles that changed American History: 100 of the Greatest Victories and Defeats. 1 vol. (2014)(108 vols total)
  • Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early Republic, 1783-1812. 3 vols. (2014)
  • The Persian Gulf War Encyclopedia: A Political, Social, and Military History (2014)
  • World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. 5 vols. (2014)
  • Five Hundred Great Military Leaders. 2 vols. (2014)
  • The American Civil War, A State-by-State Encyclopedia. 2 vols. (2015)
  • Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies that have changed History (2015)
  • Wars that changed History: 50 of the World’s Greatest Conflicts (2015)
  • Pearl Harbor: The Essential Reference Guide (2015)
  • U.S. Conflicts in the 21st Century: Afghanistan War, Iraq War, and the War on Terror. 3 vols. (2015).
  • World War I: The Essential Reference Guide (2016)
  • World War II: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. 5 vols. (2016)
  • The Roots and Consequences of 20th Century Warfare: Conflicts that shaped the Modern World. (2016)
  • The Roots and Consequences of Civil Wars and Revolutions (2017)
  • Modern Conflict in the Greater Middle East (2017)
  • Enduring Controversies in Military History: Critical Analysis and Context. 2 vols. (2017)
  • D-Day: The Essential Reference Guide (2017)
  • The Roots and Consequences of Independence Wars (2018)
  • American Revolution: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Documents Collection. 5 vols. (2018)
  • World War I: A Country-by-Country Guide. 2 vols. (2019)
  • Middle East Conflict from Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century: An Encyclopedia and Documents Collection. 4 vols. (2019)
  • Weapons and Warfare. 2 vols. (2020)
  • The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. 5 vols. (2020)
  • Great Sieges in World History: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century. (2021)
  • American Revolution, The Essential Reference Guide. (2021)
References
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Tucker, Spencer C. 1937- (Spencer Tucker, Spencer Coakley Tucker)". Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. HighBeam Research. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2012. (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c Tucker, Spencer C. (2009). United States Leadership in Wartime -- Clashes, Controversy, and Compromise -- Vol. 2. ABC-CLIO. pp. vii.
  3. ^ a b "The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia -- Author Info". ABC-CLIO. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  4. ^ a b c "Spencer C. Tucker". Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  5. ^ a b Swanson, Carl E. (Fall 1993). "Member and Naval Historical Center News -- Spencer C. Tucker" (PDF). NASOH Newsletter. 19 (2): 2.
  6. ^ "CHAIRS: The John Biggs '30 Cincinnati Chair in Military History". Virginia Military Institute. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  7. ^ Floyd, Burton R. (November 2000). "The Institute Report -- "Potpourri"". The Institute Report. 28 (3): 6.
  8. ^ "SPENCER C. TUCKER CHOSEN AS GUEST SPEAKER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMEMORATING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KOREAN WAR". ABC-CLIO. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  9. ^ Roberts, William R. (Fall 1988). "Member News" (PDF). NASOH Newsletter. 13 (3): 4.
  10. ^ Roberts, William R. (Spring 1989). "Member News" (PDF). NASOH Newsletter. 14 (2): 4.
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