Adam Howard
Adam Howard is the Executive Director of the International Churchill Society (ICS) and a leading expert in international relations history, with a particular focus on U.S. foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli dispute. He is the author of Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel, which explores the significant influence of the American labor movement in shaping the early years of the Israeli state.
As Executive Director of the ICS, he leads the Society’s mission to preserve and promote the legacy of Winston Churchill through education, scholarship, and public engagement.
Previously, Dr. Howard served as the chief historian at the U.S. Department of State and Director of the Office of the Historian, where he oversaw the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States series and prepared policy-relevant historical studies for senior officials across the U.S. government.
Dr. Howard’s teaching emphasizes the practical application of history and explores the complex connections between history, diplomacy, and international affairs.
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- 20th-century United States
- Cold War
Author, “The American Labor Movement and the Establishment of Israel.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press. Article published June 28, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.933.
Co-Author, “Confronting the Arc of Crisis: The Carter Administration’s Approach to Security Building in the ‘Greater Gulf’ Region, 1977-80,” in United States Relations with China and Iran: Towards the Asian Century, Bloomsbury, 2019
Author, Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel, University of Illinois Press, 2017
Review of Salim Yaqub’s Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s in Passport (SHAFR magazine), October 2017.
Editor, "The Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1977-1978," Foreign Relations of the United States VIII. Washington, DC: Department of State, 2013.
Editor, "The Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1974-1976," Foreign Relations of the United States XXVI. Washington, DC: Department of State, 2012.
Editor, "The Jordan Crisis, September 1970," Foreign Relations of the United States XXIV. Washington, DC: Department of State, 2009.
Review of Paul Charles Merkley's Christian Attitudes Towards the State of Israel in American Jewish Archives Journal 55, no. 1 (2003): 137-140.
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2003