Robert L. Beisner
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Robert L. Beisner

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Robert L. Beisner is a former president of the Society for American Historians and emeritus professor of American history at American University in Washington, DC. A native of Nebraska, he took his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history at the University of Chicago. His dissertation on the American anti-imperialist movement of 1898-1900 won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians. As a book--Twelve Against Empire: The American Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900--it won the John Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association. His book, From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900, has been widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses in American diplomatic history since the first edition was published in 1975. His 2006 biography, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, won the Robert H. Ferrell Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Douglas Dillon Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the Arthur Ross Silver Medal Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. It was also the First Runner-Up for the Harry S. Truman Book Award from the Truman Presidential Library.
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