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Born in Waukeegan, Ill., in 1920, Ford graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He served in the United States Army Signal Corps and the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency, doing intelligence work in Germany, studying the German resistance and visiting the liberated concentration camp at Dachow...
...Ford went on to get his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1948 and 1950, respectively, and taught at Bennington College from...
...Ford first joined the Harvard faculty in 1953 as an assistant history professor specializing in 17th century France and modern Germany, although he quickly gained a reputation as a European historian with a broad area of expertise...
...Ford mentored some of today’s leading academic historians and wrote on diverse subjects ranging from Louis XIV to political assassination...
...that, as the historical profession developed, there tended to be an emphasis on national histories, and he really didn’t do that—he wrote on multicultural concerns,” said Thomas C. Childers, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, who studied under Ford from 1971 to 1976. “He was cosmopolitan and comparative, that was his strength...