William B. Pickett
William B. Pickett | |
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| Born | William Beatty Pickett March 12, 1940 Crawfordsville, Indiana, U.S. |
| Board member of | Indiana Association of Historians, Indiana Council for History Education |
| Awards | Fulbright Fellowship (1989) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Carleton College Indiana University Bloomington |
| Thesis | Homer E. Capehart: The Making of a Hoosier Senator (1974) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | U.S. political and military history, Indiana history, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Homer E. Capehart, history of the Internet |
| Institutions | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
| Notable works | Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power, Eisenhower Decides To Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy |
William Beatty Pickett (born March 12, 1940) is an American historian and professor emeritus at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. He is known as an authority on President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Indiana Senator Homer E. Capehart, and is the author of several well-regarded books on U.S. history including Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power and Eisenhower Decides To Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy.