John Milton Cooper, Jr., has devoted most of his work as an historian to the era of World War I, ranging from the opposition to entering that conflict to the fight over entering the League of Nations. He has also written biographies of Wilson, one of his inner circle, a comparative study of him and Theodore Roosevelt, and a general history of the United States in the first two decades of the twentieth century. He taught first at Wellesley College and then at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he retired as E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions. He also served as chair of the Department of History at Wisconsin and as Fulbright professor of U. S. history at Moscow State University.
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