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Dr. Lawrence S. Kaplan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 28, 1924. He grew up in Chelsea, Massachusetts and attended Colby College. His attendance at Colby was interrupted by World War II. He enlisted in the US Army. After serving in the Army, he returned to Colby College and graduated in 1947. He proceeded to Yale University for both his Master's and PhD in History.
He became a well-known historian, specializing in American history and in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It's perhaps best for him to explain his own history better than any of us. Copied below is his CV, that he just recently updated.
He married Janice Eyges. Janice passed away on January 28, 2020. They are both survived by their children: Deborah Kaplan and Joshua Kaplan.
Education
Colby College, 1941-43; 1946-47 B.A. 1947
Yale University, 1947-48 M.A. 1948
Yale University, 1948-51 Ph.D. 1951
Positions
Lecturer in American History, University of Bridgeport, 1950
Historian, Department of Defense, 1951-54
Instructor to Professor of History, Kent State University, 1954-1977
University Professor of History, Kent State University, 1977-1993
Director, Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO Studies, 1979-1992
University Professor Emeritus, Director Emeritus, 1993
Professorial Lecturer, Georgetown University, 1993--
Fulbright Lecturer in American History, University of Bonn, 1959-60
Fulbright Lecturer in American History, University of Louvain, 1964-65
Fulbright Lecturer in Political Science, University of Nice,summer 1965
Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer, University of Malta 1987(December)
NATO Fellow, 1980-81
Fulbright Research Grant, NATO, 2002
Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Kent State Univ,1963-64
Chair, Graduate Program in History, Kent State Univ, 1967-69
Visiting Associate Professor of History, Michigan State,1962(summer)
Lecturer, University College London, 1969-70
Visiting Professor, European University Institute, Florence, 1978,1986
Lecturer, Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1981-86
McKinley Visiting Lecturer, Timken Foundation, 1982
USIA lectures—in NATO Europe, 1984—
Lecturer in American Studies, Honors Program, Univ. of Maryland, 1998
Professorial Lecturer in History, Georgetown University, 1993-
Fellowships and Awards
University Fellowship, Yale University, 1947-48
American Council of Learned Society, Fellowship,1950-51
Lilly Foundation, Clements Library Fellowship, 1961 (summer)
Honors Day speaker, Kent State Univ, 1966
Honors Day speaker, Urbana College, 1974
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, Kent State Univ,1967
Outstanding Teaching Award, Ohio Academy of History, 1981
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1974
Consultant, Pennsylvania Distinguished Faculty Awards Program, 1974-76
Consultant, Historians Office, Department of Defense,1975-79;1986—
Consultant, National Archives, 1977-78; 1994-96
NATO Research Fellow, 1980-81
Visiting Fellow, Center for International Security Studies, Univ of
Maryland, 1991-93
Advisory Board, Foreign Relations of the United States under
Articles of Confederation project, 1992-1994
CIA Historical Review Panel, 1999—
Societies
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Alpha Theta
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, President, 1981
Society of Historians of Early American History, President, 1991
Ohio Academy of History, President, 1982
Hillel Counselorship, Faculty Adviser, Kent State University,1956-1991
Society for French Historical Studies, Gilbert Chinard Book Committee,
1980-87
