Harold D. Langley
Harold David Langley (15 February 1925 – 29 July 2020) was an American diplomatic and naval historian who served as associate curator of naval history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1969 to 1996. As a naval historian, he was a pioneer in exploring American naval social and medical history.[1]
Early life and education
Langley was born in
Ph.D. in 1960 with a dissertation on "The Humanitarians and the United States Navy, 1798-1862."[2]
Professional career
Langley began his professional career at the
U.S. Department of State. In 1964, Catholic University of America appointed him associate professor, and in 1968 promoted him to full professor in 1968. In 1969, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., appointed him associate curator of naval history. While holding that position, he was also an adjunct professor of American history at the Catholic University of America from 1971 to 2001.[3]
He died in Alexandria, Virginia, in July 2020.
Awards
- 1995 John Lyman Book Awards in the category of Science and Technology for History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy
- 2000 K. Jack Bauer Award, North American Society for Oceanic History
- 2001 Samuel Eliot Morison Award, USS Constitution Museum
- 2014 Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award, Naval Historical Foundation[4]
Published works
- (Editor with others) Documents on Germany, 1944-59, (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959).
- (Editor with others) Documents on Disarmament, 1960, (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961).
- (Compiler and co-editor) Documents on International Aspects of the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, 1954–1962, (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963.)
- Social Reform in the United States Navy, 1798-1862, (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967).
- St. Stephen Martyr Roman CatholicChurch and Community, 1867-1967. (Washington, DC: St. Stephen Martyr Centennial Committee, 1968).
- To Dragoons and glimpses of life in Arizona and California, 1858-1859 edited by Harold D. Langley. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, c.1974).
- (Editor with Francis Loewenheim and Manfred Jonas) Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence. (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975).
- (Editor) So Proudly We Hail: The History of the United States Flag. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981).
- A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
Reviews
Langley's examination of the early practice of naval medicine contains some enlightening and shocking revelations. Foremost is the ponderous movement of bureaucracies, most notably the Navy Department, which could not produce a decision on the means to provide care and treatment for wounded and infirm sailors.[5]
References
- ^ [Obituary | https://adventfuneral.com/tribute/details/193998/Harold-Langley/obituary.html]
- ^ Obituary
- ^ Obituary
- ^ David F. Winkler, "Naval Historians to Receive Knox Award," Pull Together (Volume 53 No. 3 - Summer 2014) / Daybook (Volume 17 Issue 3), p. 12.
- ^ "Book Review: A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy". American Historical Review. October 1999. Archived from the original on 8 December 2009.
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