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Dr. Arden BucholzDr. Arden Bucholz
Distinguished Teaching Professor

Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
(585) 395-5697; Fax: (585) 395-2620
Office: 130 Albert W. Brown Building
E-Mail: abucholz@brockport.edu

Education
  • Phd  University of Chicago, 1972 - European History
    Dissertation: Hans Delbruck: Military Historian
  • MA University of Chicago, 1965 - European History
  • Diploma, University of Vienna, 1960 - History, Sociology
  • BA Dartmouth College, 1958 - History, English
Awards
  • Dennis Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2000
  • Advanced Research Associate, U.S. Army Military History Institute, 1985.
  • State University of New York Research Foundation Grant for Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction, 1977.
  • State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1977.
  • State University of New York Research Foundation Fellowship, 1974-76.
Courses Taught
  • Ancient World History
  • Modern World History
  • Nazi Germany
  • American Military History
  • Introduction  to Historical Studies - MA Program
  • Reading Seminar in European History
Recent Publications

Books:

  • Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2001.
  • Delbruck's Modern Military History, University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
  • Moltke, Schieffen and Prussian War Planning, Oxford 1991, Berg Press, paperback 1993.
  • Hans Delbruck and the German Military Establishment: War Images in Conflict, University of Iowa Press, 1985.
  • "Militarism" in Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, Academic Press, 1999.
  • "Armies, Railroads and Information: The Birth of Industrial Mass War" in Jane Summerton (ed.) Changing Large Technical Systems, Westview Press, 1994.
  • "Hans Delbruck and Modern Military History" in The Historian, Vol.55, No.3, Spring 1993.
  • "Germany and the Death Paradigm" in Central European History, Vol.24, No.1, 1992.
  • "Engineering and European War Planning Processes" in The Interaction Between Technology and Science, Landbouw Universiteit, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 1992.
Current Projects

Professor Bucholz is currently writing the first full-scale biography of Helmuth von Moltke in fifty years. This book, Helmuth von Moltke, 1800-1891: A Modern Biography, is currently under contract with Taylor and Francis, Ltd., London. A second work, Moltke, Schlieffen and the Management of Armies, has been solicited. He is also beginning a book on, "the Voice of Betty Crocker," Betty Lutz Bucholz (1903-2002).