Contact Information:
Iona College, Department of History
715 North Ave.
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Phone: (914) 633-2698
Fax: (914) 633-2153
Email: jmorgan@iona.edu

Office Hours:
Tuesday 1:00 pm 1:50 pm
Thursday 9:00 am - 9:50 am
Friday 9:00 am - 9:50 am

Education:
BA - Iona College.
MA - Manhattan College.
PhD - Georgetown University, 1993.

Courses Taught:
HUM 101. Honors Humanities: Ancient.
HST 105. Topics in Western Civilization.
HST 207. The Growth of the American Republic.
HST 208. The Emergence of Modern America.
HST 319. America's Recent Past.
HST 335. The Development of American Foreign Relations.
HST 336. American Foreign Relations in the Modern Age.
HST 863. War and Peace: America Since 1914.

Teaching Interest:
World History Survey.
Contemporary American History.
Vietnam War.

Research Interest and Scholarship:
American Diplomacy.
Vietnam War.

Representative Publications:
- The Vietnam Lobby: The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955 - 1975 (1997).
- "Wesley Fishel and Vietnam: 'A Special Kind of Friend,'" in America Since 1945 (2003).

Representative Presentations:
- "Countering the Antiwar Movement," (Texas Tech University, 1996).
- "Wesley Fishel: A Cold War Expert on Vietnam," (Cornell University, 2001).
- "The End of a Friendship: Wesley R. Fishel and Ngo Dinh Diem, 1958-1963," (Texas Tech University, 2003).

Academic Awards, Honors and Officerships:
Chair, Department of History, Iona College (1989 - 2008).

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