Dr. Ronald Frankum

Courses:

• HIST 105:  History Matters
• HIST 106:  Contours of United States History
• HIST 276:  History of American Foreign Relations, 1890 to the Present
• HIST 357:  Modern United States History
• HIST 359:  The First World War
• HIST 360:  The Second World War
• HIST 405:  Senior Seminar
• HIST 470:  The Vietnam War
• HIST 498/499:  Departmental Honors Thesis
• HIST 503:  Readings in 20th Century United States History
• HIST 510:  Topics in History:  20th Century American Foreign Relations
• HIST 510:  Readings:  The Vietnam War
• HIST 510:  Readings:  Modern American Foreign Relations
• HIST 610:  20th Century American Wars and Diplomacy
• HIST 612:  Seminar:  The Vietnam War
• HIST 698:  Independent Study - Readings in United States History

Recent Publications:

Books

• Battle Briefings:  The Vietnam War.  Stackpole Publishing (2019)
• Elbridge Durbrow’s War in Vietnam:  The Ambassador's Influence on American Involvement, 1957-1961.  McFarland and Company, Inc. (2019)
• Vietnam’s Year of the Rat:  Elbridge Durbrow, Ngô Đình Diệm and the Turn in U.S. Relations, 1959-1961.  McFarland and Company, Inc. (2014)
• The Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam.  Scarecrow Press (2011)
• Operation Passage to Freedom:  The United States in Vietnam, 1954-1955 Texas Tech University Press (2007)
• Like Rolling Thunder:  The Air War during the Vietnam War.   Rowman and Littlefield (2005)
• The Vietnam War for Dummies.  [with Stephen Maxner] Wiley (2002)
• Silent Partners:  The United States and Australia in Vietnam.  Edwin Mellen Press, (2001)

Articles/Encyclopedia Entries

• “Anti-War Movemment (Vietnam)” in The American Middle Class [2 volumes]: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty.  Ed. Robert S. Rycroft (Greenwood Press, 2017).
• “Một cách hiểu về Ngô Đình Diệm  (Understanding Ngô Đình Diêm), BBCVietnamese.com (October 28, 2008) 
• “Australia, Air Force”, “Australia, Navy”, “Donlan, Roger”, “FREEDOM TRAIN, Operation (air)”, “Sisowath Sirik Matak”, “Task Force 116”, “Xa Loi Pagoda Raid”, “Vung Tau” entries in the ABC-CLIO Military History Series (2008)
• “Australia” and “New Zealand” entries in the Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History.  Spencer Tucker, Editor (2006)
• "Walking A Tightrope:  An Examination Of United States-Australian Foreign Relations In West New Guinea, 1954-1962," Melbourne Historical Journal, August 1998

Current Research Interests:

Twentieth Century American Foreign Relations; The Vietnam War; United States Military History