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David F. Schmitz (born September 4, 1956)^[1] holds the Robert Allen Skotheim Chair of History at Whitman College. He specializes in 20th Century United States history, especially United States Foreign Policy.^[2]

He received a PhD, from Rutgers University in 1985,^[2] with a thesis "United States foreign policy toward fascist Italy, 1922-1940".^[3]

• The United States and Right-wing Dictatorships, 1965-1989, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780521678537. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 530 libraries^[4]
• Brent Scowcroft: internationalism and post-Vietnam War American foreign policy, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011. ISBN 9780742570405
• The triumph of internationalism: Franklin D. Roosevelt and a world in crisis, 1933-1941, Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2007. ISBN 9781574889307
• The Tet Offensive : Politics, war, and public opinion, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. ISBN 9780742544864 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 427 libraries ^[5]
• Henry L. Stimson: the first wise man, Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2001. ISBN 9780842026321
• (co-edited with T. Christopher Jespersen) Architects of the American century: individuals and institutions in twentieth-century U.S. foreign policymaking, Chicago: Imprint, 2000. ISBN 9781879176355
• Thank God they're on our side: the United States and Right-wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. ISBN 9780807847732. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 462 libraries^[6]
• (co-edited, with Richard D. Challener) Appeasement in Europe: a reassessment of U.S. policies, New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. ISBN 9780313259258
• The United States and fascist Italy, 1922-1940, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. ISBN 9780807817667