Stephen Knott

Dr. Stephen Knott (born June 14, 1957) is the Thomas and Mabel Guy Professor in American History and Government at Ashland University and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the United States Naval War College in Newport, RI. Prior to accepting his position at the Naval War College, Knott was Co-Chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. 
==Early life and education==
Knott was born in Paxton, Massachusetts, in 1957. He graduated from Assumption College in 1979 and began work at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in October, 1979. He left the Library in 1985 to pursue a Ph.D in Political Science at Boston College, which he was awarded in 1991. Knott has taught at the University of New Hampshire, at Quinnipiac University, and the United States Air Force Academy, where he was part of the first group of permanent civilian faculty at the Academy.
==Career==
In 2001, he joined the research faculty at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, conducting oral history interviews for the Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush oral history projects, as well as teaching in UVA's Department of Politics. He also helped launch the teaching in UVA's Department of Politics. He also helped launch the Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project in December 2004, where he was responsible for conducting the bulk of the interviews between that date and the summer of 2007. He became a professor of National Security Affairs at the United States Naval War College in July 2007 until his retirement in December 2022. Knott is the author or co-author of ten books dealing with the American presidency and the history of the early American Republic, as well as essays and op-eds in newspapers including The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal and numerous academic journals. He has delivered many public lectures, a number of which have appeared on CSPAN.
==Awards==
Department of the Navy, Meritorious Civilian Service Award, December 16, 2022.
National Hamilton Scholar, Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, January 10, 2017.
Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, Assumption University, May 11, 2013.
Outstanding Achievement Award, Assumption University Alumni Association, 2009. 	 Who’s Who in America,, 2002-2003, 2020.
Best Instructor Award, Politics and American Government, Department of Political Science, United States Air Force Academy, 1998-1999.
Charles R. Coble Jr. Award for Excellence in Political Science Research, 1997.
Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book of 1996.
The National Intelligence Study Center Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation, 1990.
Thomas P. O’Neill Fellow in American Government at Boston College, 1985-1986.
==Publications and books==
Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy, The University Press of Kansas, October 2022
Editor, American Foreign Policy to 1899: Core Documents, Ashbrook Press, October 2021.
The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal, The University Press of Kansas, November 2019.
Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America, Co-author, Sourcebooks, September 2015.
The Evolution of the Executive and Executive Power in the American Republic, Co-author, Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Book, November 2014.
Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics, The University Press of Kansas, March 2012.
At Reagan’s Side: Insiders’ Recollections from Sacramento to the White House, Co-author, Rowman and Littlefield, May 2009.
The Reagan Years, Co-author, Facts on File, April 2005.
Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, The University Press of Kansas, February 2002.
Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency, Oxford University Press, April 1996.
Articles and Essays
“9/11 Attacks,” in Political Violence in America: Historical Flashpoints and Modern-Day Trends, Lori Cox Han and Tomislav Han, eds., ABC-CLIO, March 29, 2022.
“The Bay of Pigs Disaster: Sixty Years Later,” The National Interest, March 28, 2021.
“The Assassination That Could Have Sparked World War III,” Washington Post, November 23, 2018.
“As Election Day Nears, Trump Borrows From Harry Truman’s Playbook,” Washington Post, November 5, 2018.
“The Four Faces of Alexander Hamilton: Jefferson’s Hamilton, Hollywood’s Hamilton, Miranda’s Hamilton, and the Real Hamilton,” American Political Thought, Fall, 2018.
“James Monroe,” in Hatred of America’s Presidents: Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Obama, ABC-CLIO, June 2018.
“Collusion: A Presidential Tradition,” Washington Post, March 16, 2018.
“America Has Been Fighting Over Statues Since the Founding,” Politico, October 27, 2017.
“The Speech: Reagan, the Russians, and the Bomb,” in The Reagan Manifesto: A Time for Choosing and Its Influence, Palgrave, 2017.
“America’s Worst Secretary of State,” The National Interest, January 31, 2017.
“America was Founded on Secrets and Lies”, Foreign Policy, February 15, 2016.
“The Real Relationship Between Washington and Hamilton,” Time, January 26, 2016.
“Secrecy is as American as Apple Pie,” in Debating Reform, ed. Richard J. Ellis and Michael Nelson, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2016
“What Might Have Been: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy,” The Review of Politics, Fall, 2014.
“If George Washington Were Alive, He’d be Reading Your E-Mail,” Foreign Policy, January 29, 2014.
“The World of Justin Amash,” The National Interest, October 2013.
“When Everyone Agreed About Iraq,” The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2013.
“Judging George W. Bush, Scholarship or Punditry?” The Washington Post, April 21, 2013.
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