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Chester Pach

Chester Pach
Professor
Bentley Annex 419, Athens Campus
History
International Studies
War and Peace Studies
pach@ohio.edu
740-593-4353

Education

  • Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University
  • M.A. in History from Northwestern University
  • A.B. from Brown University

Research

  • United States; Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
  • United States and the World
  • Politics, Media, and Popular Culture

Chester Pach is a Professor in the Department of History. He specializes in the history of U.S. involvement in world affairs and recent U.S. history. His research has focused on U.S. involvement in the Cold War and the Vietnam War as well as the Eisenhower, Johnson, and Reagan presidencies. He has a particular interest in television coverage of international issues and the intersections between politics, popular culture, and international history.

In 1995, he was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the winner of the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award for 2005-6 and gave the address at the Graduate Commencement on June 9, 2006. In 2016, he received the Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities.

Professor Pach has served on several committees of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of H-DIPLO, a part of the HNET Electronic Discussion Network.

Publications

He is completing The Presidency of Ronald Reagan in the American Presidency Series for the University Press of Kansas. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, and the Baker Fund of 帝王会所 to support his research and writing.

Books

, editor (Schlager, 2025)

, editor (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)

(Facts on File, 2006)

, rev.ed. (University Press of Kansas, 1991)

(University of North Carolina Press, 1991)

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淭he US News Media and Vietnam,鈥 , volume 2: Escalation and Stalemate, editor, Andrew Preston (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025)

鈥淭he Long Goodbye: Mourning and Remembering Ronald Reagan,鈥 in , eds. Lindsay Chervinsky and Matthew Costello (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023)

鈥淩onald Reagan鈥檚 Noble Causes,鈥 Essay Series on Presidential Principles and Beliefs (February 2023)

鈥淭he United States and the Early Cold War, 1945-1961,鈥 (revised and updated) in , (Boston: Brill, 2022)

鈥,鈥 Oxford Research Encyclopedia, American History (August 2019)

鈥,鈥 Chapter 16: 鈥淟ife, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,鈥 Bill of Rights Institute, 2018

鈥,鈥 Chapter 16: 鈥淟ife, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,鈥 Bill of Rights Institute, 2018

鈥,鈥 New York Times, May 30, 2017

鈥淩eputation and Legacies: An American Symbol,鈥 in , ed. Andrew L. Johns (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015)

鈥,鈥 Room for Debate, New York Times, April 29, 2015

鈥,鈥 Ripon Forum 45 (Winter 2011)

鈥溾榃e Need to Get a Better Story to the American People鈥: LBJ, the Progress Campaign, and the Vietnam War on Television,鈥 , eds. Andrew K. Frank and Kenneth Osgood (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010)

鈥溾極ur Worst Enemy Seems to Be the Press鈥: TV News, Vietnamization, and U.S. Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1969-73,鈥 (June 2010)

Teaching

Chester Pach teaches courses on U.S. involvement in world affairs and recent U.S. history. His courses include:

  • HIST 3164: History of U.S. Involvement in World Affairs, 1945-Present
  • HIST 3220: The United States in the 1960s
  • HIST 3224: The United States in the 1980s: The Age of Reagan and Madonna
  • HIST 6800: Research Seminar in History
  • HIST 6901: Colloquium in United States History