John H. Morrow, Jr.

John Howard Morrow Jr. (born 1944), is an American historian. As of 2022, Morrow is an Emeritus Professor at University of Georgia. From 1988 to 2022, he was the Franklin Professor and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of Modern Europe and of warfare and society at the University of Georgia. he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with his Ph.D. in Modern European History.

Career For seventeen years, starting in 1971, Morrow taught at the University of Tennessee (UTK) in the College of Arts and Sciences. He was the first African-American faculty member. From 1983 to 1988, he served as Head of the university's History Department. Because of his successful career at UTK, a lecture series and military history award was named after him. He is the nephew of E. Frederic Morrow, the nations first African American to hold an executive position at the White House and Nellie Morrow Parker, the first African-American public school teacher in Bergen County, New Jersey.

Honors 1985: University of Tennessee, Outstanding Teacher, National Alumni Association 1985: University of Tennessee, Macebearer 2005: US Department of the Army, Outstanding Civilian Service 2019: Pritzker Literature Award

Publications Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality (2014), co-author, Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (1998), contributor A Yankee Ace in the RAF. The World War I Letters of Captain Boart Rogers (1996), Editor, The Great War in the Air (1993) German Airpower in World War I (1982) Building German Airpower (1976)