PROFESSOR OF HISTORY
B.A., STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO; M.A., PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
Harold J. Goldberg, the David E. Underdown Distinguished Professor of History, is the author of D-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan and Europe in Flames. He teaches courses on Russia, China, Vietnam, World War II, and Socialism.
Harold J. Goldberg obtained a B.A. from SUNY Buffalo and a Russian Area Studies Certificate, M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1995 he taught in Moscow at the Russian State Humanities University. In 2005 he received Sewanee's Teacher of the Year Award. Dr. Goldberg is the author of a four-volume series: Documents of Soviet-American Relations covering the period from 1917-1945.
Professor Goldberg has contributed many articles to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History; Ground Warfare: An International Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social, and Military History; and Russian Encyclopedia; he is a frequent book reviewer for the Journal of Military History.
His book was a selection of both the History and Military Book Clubs. More recently he has published Fighting Words: 
Competing Voices from World War II in Europe, a book that has been published in paperback as Europe in Flames 
and is part of the Military History Series of Stackpole Press. He has traveled frequently to Japan, China, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵeast Asia, the Soviet Union/Russia, and Europe. For the past fifteen years he has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵern Conference on Slavic Studies and received the organization's Outstanding Service Award. In the summer he leads student study trips to in England, France, and Germany.
