William Hitchcock
- Japan, USA
is the James Madison Professor of History and Director of the program »Governing America in a Global Era« at the University of Virginia. He earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University. His research and teaching focus on twentieth-century global history, particularly the First and Second World Wars as well as the Cold War. Among his most significant publications are »The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe« (2008), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, and the New York Times bestseller »The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s« (2018). William Hitchcock has been a Fulbright Fellow in Belgium, a fellow at the Nobel Institute and a fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. In fall 2025, William Hitchcock will be a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, where he is completing a book on the American response to the rise of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s.
Last Update: 2025
France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Stability in Europe, 1945–1954
University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill (NC), 1998
From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (Hrsg. mit Paul Kennedy)
Yale University Press
New Haven (CT), 2000
The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945–present
Doubleday
New York, 2003
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
Simon & Schuster
New York, 2008
The Human Rights Revolution: An International History (Hrsg. mit Akira Iriye & Petra Goedde)
Oxford University Press
New York, 2012
The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
Simon & Schuster
New York, 2018