David Bushnell (historian)

David Bushnell ( born May 14, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † 3 September 2010 in Gainesville, Florida) was an American historian, university professor and one of the leading experts on the history of Colombia and South America.

Biography

During the visit, the Elementary School, he wrote his first book about Latin America with the aptly titled A Beginner's Outline of Latin American Geography. After school he studied at the history at Harvard University and graduated in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) from. He then worked in the Department of Latin America in the Office of Strategic Services, and from 1944 to 1946 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States. Between 1949 and 1956 he was professor of Latin American history at the University of Delaware and earned during that time in 1951 his Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D.) from Harvard University.

After completing his teaching at the University of Delaware, he was from 1956 to 1963 employees in the office of the historian of the U.S. Air Force in New Mexico as well as in Washington, DC. During this time he was also an employee of the historical consultancy program of NASA and also had the supervision about the official story of NASA. As a historian of the U.S. Air Force, he was also co-author of Space Biology, an overview of flight altitudes and other experiments, the Luftwaffe before the manned space flights.

In 1963 he accepted an appointment as Professor of History at the University of Florida and taught at this until his retirement in 1991. At the same time he was between 1986 and 1991 chief editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review, the leading journal of Latin American history.

During his decades of teaching, he has written seven books about the history of Argentina, Colombia and Latin America, most of which have been translated into Spanish. He was also the editor of several other books and author of articles. His last, finished shortly before his death essay Philatelic Feminism: The Portrayal of Women on stamps of Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, and the United States combined his historical interests with his interest in philately.

David Bushnell was not only a visiting professor at the National War College and visiting fellow at Oxford University, but also received numerous other awards and honors.

For his work on Francisco de Paula Santander, the first vice president and second president of Greater Colombia, and other works on the history of Colombia in 1984, he received the Francisco Santander Medal of the Department of Santander. 1995 was awarded to him for his numerous publications on the history of Colombia by the Colombian government of San Carlos Order. At the time of his death intended the Universidad Nacional de Colombia to give him an honorary doctorate to be awarded posthumously now.