Mark T. Gilderhus is the Lyndon B. Johnson Chair in the history department. He has degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College (B.A., 1963) and the University of Nebraska (M.A., 1965; Ph.D. in 1968). He joined the faculty at TCU in 1997 after twenty-nine years at Colorado State. He has specialties in U.S. military and diplomatic history and in historiography. His various publications include Diplomacy and Revolution: U.S.-Mexican Relations under Wilson and Carranza (1977); Pan American Visions: Woodrow Wilson in the Western Hemisphere, 1913-1921 (1986); History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction (4th ed., 2000); and The Second Century: U.S.-Latin American Relations Since 1889 (2000). He is presently working on various projects. He contributed to a new edition of the Guide to American Foreign Relations since 1700, a bibliographical reference put out by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations of which he is a past president. He is writing the chapters on the twentieth century for a new textbook on U.S. military history in conjunction with TCU colleagues Gene Smith and Steven Woodworth. He is also preparing a diplomatic profile of Robert Lansing in a series on American Secretaries of State and an essay on the literature of U.S.-Latin American relations for a volume on the historiography of American foreign relations.