Thomas J. McCormick explained

Thomas J. McCormick (March 6, 1933 – July 25, 2020)^[1] was an American academic who was emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the same place he got a Ph.D.^[2] where he succeeded William Appleman Williams and continued the groundbreaking work of the so-called Wisconsin School of diplomatic history. Indeed he is considered one of the core members of the Wisconsin School, along with Williams, Walter LaFeber, and Lloyd Gardner.^{[3] [4]} He has used Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems approach to describe the dynamics of hegemony in US diplomatic history^[5] and also studied US corporatism.^[6]

McCormick taught at the Ohio University, University of Pittsburgh, and University of Wisconsin–Madison where he won the Wisconsin Student Association Award for Teaching Excellence (1992-1993). He was a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow (1981), Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at University College Dublin (1993-1994), and Vilas Associate (1996-1998). McCormick authored six books (see Works) and many influential articles.^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]} He often gave US guest lectures^{[17] [18] [19] [20]} as well as several keynote addresses at worldwide conferences.^{[21] [22] [23] [24]}

On December 4, 2023, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Senate Faculty passed a memorial resolution^[25] honoring the career and life of Professor Thomas J. McCormick.

Works

• China Market: America's Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901. Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1967.
• Creation of the American Empire: U.S. Diplomatic History. With Lloyd C. Gardner and Walter F. LaFeber. New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1973.
• America in Vietnam. With William A. Williams and Walter F. LaFeber. New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1988.
• America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, revised second edition 1995.
• The Vietnam War: Four American Perspectives. With William Westmorland, George McGovern, and Edward Luttwack. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1990.
• Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968. With Walter F. LaFeber (eds.) Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

Further reading

• James G. Morgan, Into New Territory: American Historians and the Concept of American Imperialism. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.
• In Memoriam: Thomas J. McCormick by Lloyd Gardner and Walter LaFeber

Notes and References

1. Web site: McCormick, Thomas Joseph, Jr. . Madison.com . 21 January 2021.
2. Web site: History Department Emeriti/Emeritae. 24 May 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101208072756/http://history.wisc.edu/people/emeriti.htm. 8 December 2010.
3. Some Reflections on the Historiography of the Cold War . Edward . Crapol . The History Teacher . 20 . 2 . 251–262. February 1987 . 493031. 10.2307/493031 .
4. Book: Morgan, James G. . Into New Territory: American Historians and the Concept of American Imperialism . Madison . University of Wisconsin Press . 2014 . 172.
5. Web site: Gale . Thomas . Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 . Modern World-System Analysis . 30 August 2019.
6. Book: Williams . William A. . The Contours of American History . 1961 . W. W. Norton Company . 9780393305616.
7. McCormick . Thomas . Insular Imperialism and the Open Door: The China Market and the Spanish-American War . Pacific Historical Review . 1963.
8. McCormick . Thomas . The State of American Diplomatic History . The State of American History . 1971.
9. McCormick . Thomas . Exporting the Social Question . New Perspectives in American History . 1972.
10. McCormick . Thomas . Drift or Mastery? The Corporatist Synthesis in American Diplomatic History . The Promise of American History . 1982.
11. McCormick . Thomas . Every System Needs A Center Sometime--An Essay on Hegemony and Modern American Foreign Policy . Redefining the Past . 1978.
12. McCormick . Thomas . Systemic Explanations . Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations . 1991.
13. McCormick . Thomas . The 1890s as Watershed Decade . Safeguarding the Republic, 1890-1990 . 1992.
14. McCormick . Thomas . Walking the Tightrope: Adolf A. Berle, Jr. and America's Journey from Social to Global Capitalism, 1933-1945 . Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968 . 1993.
15. McCormick . Thomas . Creating the New Co-Prosperity Sphere: The United States, Japan and Asia, 1945-1954 . Bulletin of Asian Studies . 1994 . IV.
16. McCormick . Thomas . American Hegemony and European Autonomy, 1989-2003: One Framework for Understanding the War in Iraq . The New American Empire . 2005.
17. McCormick . Thomas . American Hegemony and the Roots of the Vietnam War . Louis B. Sears Lectures . 1988.
18. McCormick . Thomas . The Spanish-American War and American China Policy . Association of Asian Studies . 1962 .
19. McCormick . Thomas . The State of American Diplomatic History . Organization of American Historians . 1969.
20. McCormick . Thomas . Social History, Corporatism, and American Diplomatic History . Woodrow Wilson Center . 1981.
21. McCormick . Thomas . The Corporatist Synthesis in American Diplomatic History . Japanese Association of American Studies . 1983 . Kyoto, Japan.
22. McCormick . Thomas . Glancing Backward, Looking Forward: A Retrospective on the World-System and its Prospects for the Next Quarter-Century . Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership and the American Center . 1993 . Osaka, Japan.
23. McCormick . Thomas . The Promise and Perils of American Hegemony . French Association of American Studies . 1996 . Lyon, France.
24. McCormick . Thomas . Modern Hegemony and the Rhythms of History . Japanese Association of Western History. 2000. Osaka, Japan.
25. Web site: Memorial Resolution of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison On the Death of Professor Emeritus Thomas J. McCormick . University of Wisconsin-Madison . UW-Madison Faculty.