1893
Born in Paris, Illinois to Albert and Eleanor McCormick Fleming, March 25
1905 - 1912
Eastern Illinois State College
1912 - 1914
Principal of High School, Hume, Illinois
1916
High School Teacher, Freeport, Illinois A.B., University of Illinois
1917
High School Teacher, Walla Walla, Washington
1918
Aircraft Machine Gun Instructor in France
1919 - 1921
Superintendent of Schools, Tonica, Illinois
1920
A.M., University of Illinois
1921 - 1922
Superintendent of Schools, Colfax, Illinois
1922 - 1923
Assistant Professor, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois
1923 - 1924
Associate Professor, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois
1924 - 1927
Professor & Head of Department, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois
1926 - 1927
Summer Instructor, Iowa State Teachers College
1928
Ph.D., University of Illinois
1928 - 1930
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
1929
Married Doris Sigrid Anundsen, June 29
1930
The Treaty Veto of the American Senate
1930 - 1938
Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
1932 - 1933
Penfield Traveling Scholar. Attended Disarmament Convention in Geneva
1932
Published The United States and the League of Nations, 1918 - 1920
1934 - 1937
Columnist for The Tennessean
1935
Attended talks on the Ethiopian Crisis, Geneva
1938
Professor, Vanderbilt; in London during the Munich Crisis; Published The United States and World Organization, 1920 -1933
1938 - 1939
Penfield Traveling Scholar
1937 - 1947
Commentator on foreign affairs for WSM Radio Station, Nashville, Tennessee
1940 - 1951
Head of the Political Science Department, Vanderbilt University
1941
President of the Southern Political Science Association
1943
Vice-President of the American Political Science Association
1943
Can We Win the Peace
1944
While America Slept
1944 - 1946
Radio Commentator, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
1945
Published The United States and the World Court. Founded the Nashville chapter of the Association for the United Nations
1946
Member of Bernard Baruch's staff in the State Department during the atomic energy negotiations with the U.S.S.R.
1946, 1948 - 49
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
1949
Honorary degree, Pe.D., Eastern Illinois University
1950 - 1955
Board of Directors, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
1951
Research Professor, Vanderbilt University
1952 - 1960
Columnist for Classmate (Methodist Publication)
1954 - 1957
Executive Council, The American Association of University Professors
1954
Fulbright Lecturer, Cambridge University
1956
Delegate to the Fifth National Conference of the U.S. National Convention for UNESCO for the AAUP
1956 - 1962
Columnist for the British Weekly
1957
Phi Beta Kappa Associates
1959 - 1960
Fulbright Lecturer, School of International Studies, New Delhi, India
1961
Retired from Vanderbilt University, published The Cold War and Its Origins, Vol. I, 1917 - 1950, Vol. II, 1950 - 1960
1964
Visiting Lecturer, University of Arizona, Tucson
1965
Visiting Lecturer, California State College at Los Angeles
1966
Visiting Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson
1968
Published The Origins and Legacies of World War I
1969
Visiting Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
1969
America’s Role in Asia
1970
Taught at Middle Tennessee State University
1972
Published Issues of Survival
1975
Distinquished Alumni Award, Eastern Illinois University
1980
Died September 3, age 87, in Nashville, Tennessee
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