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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|American historian (1920–2004)}}<br />
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| name = David M. Pletcher<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|6|14 |mf=yes}}<ref name=NDLA>{{cite book |title=National directory of Latin Americanists; biobibliographies of 1,884 specialists in the social sciences & humanities |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001599524 |date=1966 |publisher=Library of Congress |oclc=390393 |pages=242–243}}</ref><br />
| birth_place = [[Faribault, Minnesota]], US<ref name=NDLA/><br />
| death_date = {{death date and age |2004|2|22 |1920|6|14 |mf=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Bloomington, Indiana]], US<br />
| resting_place = Maple Lawn Cemetery, Faribault, Minnesota<br />
| resting_place_coordinates = {{Coord|44.289680|-93.299411|display=inline}}<br />
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| occupation = [[Historian]]<br />
| discipline = United States / Latin American history<br />
| period = 1944&ndash;1990<ref name=NDLA/><ref name=IUHistory/><br />
| workplaces = [[Indiana University]]<br />
| education = {{ubl|B.A., History, [[University of Chicago]], 1941 |M.A., History, University of Chicago, 1941 |Ph.D., History, University of Chicago, 1946<ref name=NDLA/>}}<br />
| known_for = Latin American historical scholarship<br />
| notable_works = ''Rails, Mines, and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico''<br />
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'''David Mitchell Pletcher''' ({{birth date|1920|6|14 |mf=yes}}&nbsp;– {{death date|2004|2|22 |1920|6|14 |mf=yes}}) was an American [[historian]], considered an expert in his field.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/resources/experts.html |title=The U.S.-Mexican War. Resources. Experts |publisher=PBS |date=2006-03-14 |access-date=2014-01-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Pletcher|first1=David M.|title=Social Security Death Index|url=http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/doc/news/11320AD6338A0010/|publisher=genealogybank|access-date=26 January 2015}}</ref> He was a [[history]] professor at [[Indiana University]] from 1965 to 1990.<ref name=IUHistory>{{cite book |last1=Madison |first1=James H. |title=Indiana University Department of History: Past to present |date=2010 |publisher=Indiana University |page=19 |edition=2010 |url=http://www.indiana.edu/~histgrad/depthist.pdf |access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Pletcher was born June 14, 1920, in [[Faribault, Minnesota]]<ref name=NDLA/> He attended the [[University of Chicago]], earning three [[Academic degree|degrees]] in history: a [[B.A.]] and an [[M.A.]] in 1941, and a [[Ph.D.]] in 1946.<ref name=NDLA/><br />
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Pletcher's initial academic post was as a history instructor at the [[University of Iowa]], from 1944 to 1946. He served as an associate professor, first at [[Knox College (Illinois)|Knox College]] from 1946 to 1956, then at [[Hamline University]] from 1956 to 1965. In 1965 he joined Indiana University as a full professor; he remained there until his retirement in 1990.<ref name=NDLA/><br />
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Pletcher served as an advisor for the 1999 [[PBS]] [[documentary]] ''U.S.-Mexican War (1846–1848)''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/resources/about_the_show.html |website=U.S.-Mexican War: 1846–1848 |title=About the show |publisher=PBS |date=March 14, 2006 |access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref><br />
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He was a member of the [[Organization of American Historians]] and the [[American Historical Association]],{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} as well as the [[Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations]], where he served as vice president in 1979 and president in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Presidents |url=https://shafr.org/about/governance/past-presidents |website=Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations |publisher=Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations |access-date=November 22, 2016 |archive-date=August 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810042332/https://shafr.org/about/governance/past-presidents |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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Pletcher died February 22, 2004, in [[Bloomington, Indiana]].<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/people/687/000399487/ NNDB]</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
In 1957, the American Historical Association awarded Pletcher the [[Albert J. Beveridge Award]], given for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present, for his book ''Rails, Mines, and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Albert J. Beveridge Award Recipients |url=https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/albert-j-beveridge-award-recipients |website=American Historical Association |access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> In 1961, he received a [[McKnight Foundation]] Award.<ref name=NDLA/><br />
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==Notable works==<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Pletcher |first1=David M. |title=Rails, Mines, and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico, 1867-1911 |year=1958 |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca, New York |oclc=237975}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Pletcher |first1=David M. |author-mask1=3 |title=The Awkward Years; American Foreign Relations under Garfield and Arthur |year=1962 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |location=Columbia, Missouri |oclc=558705173}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Pletcher |first1=David M. |author-mask1=3 |title=The Diplomacy of Annexation; Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War |year=1973 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |location=Columbia, Missouri |isbn=9780826201355 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/diplomacyofannex00davi }}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Pletcher |first1=David M. |author-mask1=3 |title=The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment: American Economic Expansion in the Hemisphere, 1865-1900 |year=1998 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |location=Columbia, Missouri |isbn= 9780826211279}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Pletcher |first1=David M. |author-mask1=3 |title=The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion Across the Pacific, 1784-1900 |year=2001 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |location=Columbia, Missouri |isbn=9780826213150}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Find a Grave|112216400|David Mitchell Pletcher}}<br />
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