Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1972-2021; predominant 1972-2000 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
4 files of textual records
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Dr. John Michael Carland (b. 1942) is an author, professor, and former historian for the United States Department of State.
Carland grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. He received an undergraduate degree in political science and history from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and an M.A. in political science from the City College of New York. Afterwards, Carland pursued doctoral work under the supervision of Archibald Paton Thornton at the University of Toronto. He received is Ph.D. in 1977 for his thesis, Colonial Office Staff and Nigeria: 1898 to 1914.
From 1985 to 2002, Carland worked as a historian the U.S. Army Center of Military History as where he became a subject specialist on US Army operations in the Vietnam War. He then moved to the Office of the Historian at United States Department of State where he remained until 2013. Carland has also taught at the University of Kentucky and George Mason University on topics such as Imperial, English, Canadian history as well as the history of the Vietnam War.
Carland has published works related to militaries, imperial history, and the Vietnam War, including: The Colonial Office and Nigeria, 1898–1914 (1985); Combat Operations: Stemming the Tide, May 1965–October 1966 (2000); Vietnam, January--October 1972 (2010); Vietnam, October 1972–January 1973 (2010); and Vietnam: The Kissinger-Le Duc Tho Negotiations, August 1969–December 1973 (2017).
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Fonds primarily consists of Carland’s correspondence with A. P. Thorton and C. P. Stacey, two prominent history professors with whom Carland studied as a doctoral student at the University of Toronto. Records also include news clippings and correspondence with historian Norman Hillmer related to C. P. Stacey.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
No Finding Aid.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Accession
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Dates of creation revision deletion
Entered into AtoM by Ashley Buttineau, 25 April 2023