Background
Friedman, Hal Marc was born on December 29, 1965 in Trenton, Michigan, United States. Son of Irving David and Elaine Marion (Ellias) Friedman.
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Many historians of U.S. foreign relations think of the post-World War II period as a time when the United States, as an anti-colonial power, advocated collective security through the United Nations and denounced territorial aggrandizement. Yet between 1945 and 1947, the United States violated its wartime rhetoric and instead sought an imperial solution to its postwar security problems in East Asia by acquiring unilateral control of the western Pacific Islands and dominating influence throughout the entire Pacific Basin. This detailed study examines American foreign policy from the beginning of the Truman Administration to the implementation of Containment in the summer and fall of 1947. As a case study of the Truman Administration's Early Cold War efforts, it explores pre-Containment policy in light of U.S. security concerns vis-a-vis the Pearl Harbor Syndrome. The American pursuit of a secure Pacific Basin was inconsistent at the time with its foreign policy toward other areas of the world. Thus, the consolidation of power in this region was an exception to the avowed goal of a multilateral response to the policies of the Soviet Union. This example of national or strategic security went much further than simple military control; it included the cultural assimilation of the indigenous population and the unilateral exclusion of all other powers. Analyzing traditional archival records in a new light, Friedman also investigates the persisting American notions of a Westward moving frontier that stretches beyond North American territorial bounds.
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Friedman, Hal Marc was born on December 29, 1965 in Trenton, Michigan, United States. Son of Irving David and Elaine Marion (Ellias) Friedman.
Bachelor of Science in Political Science and History, Eastern Michigan University, 1987. Master of Arts in History, Michigan State University, 1991. Doctor of Philosophy in History, Michigan State University, 1995.
Teaching assistant, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1988-1989, 90-91;
research assistant, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1989-1990;
history instructor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1995;
science and technical studies instructor Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1995;
adjunct instructor history, U. Detroit-Mercy, 1991;
lecturer department history and philosophy, instructor history, Eastern Michigan U., Ypsilanti, 1992;
teaching assistant department American thought and language, Eastern Michigan U., Ypsilanti, 1993-1994;
history instructor, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, since 1996;
associate historian, Control Michigan U.-Metropolitan Detroit, since 1996. United States history faculty consultant Advanced Placement essay reading program Ednl. Testing Svc., San Antonio, 1997-1998.
Ad hoc Community College observer Wayne State University, Detroit, 1996, 97.
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Den leader Cub Scouts American, 1977-1978. With United States Naval Reserve, since 1988. Member American Federation Teachers (delegate since 1997), Henry Ford Community College Federation Teachers, Institute for Early American History and Culture (associate), World History Association, Organisation American History, American Foreign Rels., Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha, Phi Alpha Theta (honorary).
Married Lisa Frances Sampsell, July 23, 1989. 1 child, Jeffrey Francis.