10 Facts About Dexter Perkins

Dexter Perkins was a historian who served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of American History at the University of Rochester.

Dexter Perkins was drafted in World War I, and entered service in June 1918.

Dexter Perkins joined the 87th Division, and shortly after it arrived in France he was commissioned as a first lieutenant and sent to Chaumont, where the American Expeditionary Force had its headquarters.

Dexter Perkins was assigned to the historical section, where he found a former teacher of his from Harvard and others whom he had known from Harvard.

From 1928 to 1932, Dexter Perkins was secretary to the American Historical Association, succeeded by Conyers Read.

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Dr Perkins was the John L Senior Professor of American Civilization at Cornell University from 1954 to 1959.

Dexter Perkins was a former visiting professor at the University of London and Cambridge University.

Dexter Perkins was the official US historian at the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco that preceded the organization of the United Nations.

Dexter Perkins's son Bradford was a notable historian in his own right.

Dexter Perkins was the author of A History of the Monroe Doctrine, America and Two Wars, and The Evolution of American Foreign Policy.