Current Position:


Associate Professor


Address:



University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of History
913 University Hall (M/C 198)
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Phone: (312) 996-3141
Fax: (312) 996-6377
Email: Messer@uic.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. History, 1975, University of California, Berkeley, California
• M.A. History, 1968, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
• B.A. French, 1966, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
  
  

Employment:

• 2006—present: Adjunct Instructor, English as a Second Language, TritonCollege, River Grove, IL. Emeritus, Visiting Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago.
• 1975-2005: Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago.
  

• “’Accidental judgments and casual slaughters’: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Total War” in A World at Total War, Roger Chickering ed.,Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• “What Did You Do in the Good War?” Swiss American Historical Society Review, November, 2002.
• “New Evidence on Truman’s Decision,” in Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds. Hiroshima’s Shadow, 1998.
• “World War II and the Cold War,” in George Herring and John M. Carroll, eds. Modern American Diplomacy, Scholarly Resources, revised ed., 1996.
• “America's 'Sacred Trust': Truman and the Bomb, 1945-1949,” [in Russian] Annual Studies of America, 1991, Nauka, Moscow, 1992.
• “American Perspectives on the Cold War in East Asia,” in Akira Iriye and Warren Cohen, eds. American, Chinese and Japanese Perspectives on Wartime Asia, Scholarly Resources, 1990.
• “Roosevelt, Truman and China,” in Harry Harding and Yuan Ming, eds. Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955, Scholarly Resources, 1989.
• The End of an Alliance: James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt, Truman and the Origins of the Cold War, University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
• “’Et tu Brute?’: James F. Byrnes, Harry Truman and the Origins of the Cold War,” in Kenneth A. Clements, ed. James F. Byrnes and the Origins of the Cold War, Carolina Academic Press, 1982.
• “Paths Not Taken: The United States Department of State and Alternatives to Containment,” Diplomatic History, Fall, 1977.

• James Searing, Chair, History, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7109.
• Akira Iriye, History, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.
• Martin Sherwin, History, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 02155.