Robert Griffith

Robert W. Griffith (October 17, 1940 – January 25, 2011) was an American historian.

Life Robert W. Griffith was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Evansville, Indiana.

He served on the board of editors of the Journal of American History. He served as treasurer of the Organization of American Historians until stepping down January 1, 2011 for health reasons.

Griffith died on January 25, 2011, due to complications from Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Awards 1970 Frederick Jackson Turner Award 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Harry S. Truman Library Institute Fellowship

Works "Un-Tangling the Web of Cold War Studies; or, How One Historian Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet", Journal of Multi-Media History, Vol. 3, 2000 "Truman and the Historians", April 1974 (1st edition 1970)

Editor The Specter: Original Essays on McCarthyism and the Cold War (1974)

(2nd edition January, 2001; 3rd edition January 2007)