Foster Rhea Dulles

Foster Rhea Dulles (24 January 1900, Englewood, New Jersey – 11 September 1970, Jamaica, Vermont) was an American journalist and historian, and author of a number of books.^[1][2] He specialized in political and cultural relations between the United States and East Asia,^[1] and advocated internationalism as opposed to American isolationism.^[3] The diplomats John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles were his cousins.^[1]

Biography

After secondary education at

Dulles was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1937–1938.[6] He was a visiting professor of American history at Bennington College for the academic year 1938–1940, at Smith College for the academic year 1939–1940 and at Swarthmore College for the academic year 1940‐1941.^[1][4] He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1940^[1] after submitting his thesis, American Learns to Learn.^[4]

Dulles was a professor of history at Ohio State University from 1941 to 1965,^[1] when he retired as professor emeritus. He was chair of the history department from 1953 to 1958.^[2]

In 1957, he went on State Department cultural exchanges to India, where he lectured at several different universities,^[7] and to the Soviet Union in 1958. He was a Fuibright lecturer in Japan for the academic year 1961‐1962.^[1]

Dulles Hall at Ohio State University was built in 1975 and named in his memory.^[8][9]

Family

Foster R. Dulles's father was William Dulles (1857–1915), who was a lawyer and corporation president,^[10] and a brother of Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles.^[11]

On August 7, 1926, Foster R. Dulles married Marion Richardson in Bound Brook, New Jersey.^[12]

Upon his death in 1970 he was survived by his widow, four daughters, and eight grandchildren.^[1]

Selected publications

• Old China Trade. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin company. 1930.^[13]
• Eastward Ho!: The First English Adventures to the Orient: Richard Chancellor, Anthony Jenkinson, James Lancaster, William Adams, Sir Thomas Roe. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1931; 199 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• America in the Pacific: A Century of Expansion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1932.^[14]
• Lowered Boats: A Chronicle of American Whaling. New York: Harcourt, Brace and company. 1933.^[15]
• Harpoon: The Story of a Whaling Voyage. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1935; illustrations by Clifford W. Ashley{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Forty Years of American-Japanese Relations. New York & London: D. Appleton-Century Company. 1937.
• America Learns to Play: A History of Popular Recreation, 1607–1940. New York & London: D. Appleton-Century Company. 1940.
• Behind the Open Door: The Story of American Far Eastern Relations. 1944.
• Road to Teheran: The Story of Russia and America, 1781-1943. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1944.
  • Chemin de Téhéran, la Russie et l'Amérique de 1871-1943. New York. 1945.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Weg nach Teheran, eine Darstellung der russisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen von 1781-1943. New York. 1945.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Twentieth-Century America. Boston & New York: Published for Reynal and Hitchcock by Houghton Mifflin Company. 1945.^[16]
• China and America: The Story of Their Relations Since 1784. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1946. (later editions co-authored by Melvyn Dubofsky)
• Russia and America: Pacific Neighbors. New York & San Francisco: American council, Institute of Pacific Relations. 1946.
• Labor in America: A History. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co. 1949.^[17]
• The American Red Cross: A History. New York, Harper. 1950.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• America's Rise to World Power, 1898-1954. New York: Harper. 1955.^[18]
• The Imperial Years: America's Brief Moment of Imperial Fervor. New York: Crowell. 1956.^[19][20]
• The United States Since 1865. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1959; 562 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Americans Abroad: Two Centuries of European Travel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1964.^[21]
• Prelude to World Power: American Diplomatic History, 1860-1900. New York: Macmillan. 1965.^[22]
• Yankees and Samurai: America's Role in the Emergence of Modern Japan 1791-1900. New York: Harper & Row. 1965.
• The Civil Rights Commission, 1957-1965. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 1968.
• American Policy Toward Communist China, 1949-1969. New York: Crowell. 1972; Foreword by John K. Fairbank{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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