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Register lines · Cornell University's own record; the biography is the People leg's
The tie: Walter LaFeber was born in Walkerton on August 30, 1933 and raised here — Walkerton High School, class of 1951, his family's grocery in the town's memory — and his honored career belongs to Cornell University, where he taught from 1959 until his death on March 9, 2021. The register prints from Cornell's own records, at the tie's strength: Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association for The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898 (1963; the Association's roll files the award under 1962, the book read in manuscript); Bancroft Prize and the Organization of American Historians' Ellis W. Hawley Prize for The Clash: U.S.–Japanese Relations throughout History (1997); the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award in the train of America, Russia, and the Cold War; the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award, of which he was the first recipient, 1966; a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1989; the presidency of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1999; and the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction, 2013, its lifetime-achievement honor — Cornell's own announcement quoting the Association: he was "one of the scholars who re-invented the study of American foreign relations in the 1960s." Cornell has since established the Walter F. LaFeber Professorship in his name. No line of this register makes him a Walkerton resident laureate; the town's claim is the one the record supports — he was theirs first.
Sources
- Cornell University Library, Walter LaFeber papers, collection record — the book prizes, the Clark Award, the Guggenheim, the SHAFR presidency, the Scholarly Distinction award.
- Cornell Chronicle, November 4, 2013 — the 2013 AHA Award for Scholarly Distinction and its citation.
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member record — the prize list corroborated (Beveridge, Hawley, Bancroft, Myers, Clark).
- This build's People leg — the birth, the raising, the class of 1951, told whole.