Theodore Ropp (1911–2000) was an American historian who served as a professor at Duke University.[2]
Academic career
Theodore Ropp's first teaching position was as an instructor in history at Harvard University in 1937–38. In 1938, Duke University appointed him instructor in history. Remaining at Duke for the remainder of his career, he was appointed professor in 1959 and professor emeritus in 1980.[citation needed]
Ropp first became well known through his contribution to Edward Mead Earle's widely used book Makers of Modern Strategy, published in 1943. His chapter was on "Continental doctrines of seapower".[citation needed]
^Granatstein, J. L. (1967). Politics of Survival: The Conservative Part of Canada, 1939–1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. ix. ISBN978-1-4875-8603-4. JSTOR10.3138/j.ctv5j02k4.