birth_date: 1938-12-08 00:00:00
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name: Benjamin Franklin Cooling III
about: Alternate names:B. Franklin CoolingBenjamin F. CoolingBenjamin Franklin Cooling III served as Chief Historian and Research Director with the Department of Energy and as a historian with the Army, Air Force, and National Park Service, and elsewhere. He has taught at numerous universities and is currently a Professor of History at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Cooling has authored or edited 16 books on the Civil War and modern warfare and has written several hundred articles, essays and reviews on aspects of military, naval and other history.