Hinckley, Ted C. (1925-2004)
Date Updated
10-10-2019
Department
History
Academic Rank
Emeritus Professor
Year Retired from SJSU
1990
Educational Background
Indiana University, History, 1961 Ph.D.
Claremont Graduate School
Harvard University
Kansas City University, Education, 1953 MA
Northwest Missouri State College, History, 1951 BS
Claremont Men's College, Business, 1950 BA
Teaching Experience
Western Washington Univ., Adjunct Professor, 1991-Present
University of Gadjah Mada,, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Fulbright Lecturer, Fall Semester 1994‑'95
Whitman College, Elderhostel, Summer 1993
San Jose State University, 1959-1990
Germany, Palau, Pohnpei, Summers
El Salvador, Fall Semester 1979
Indiana University (TA), 1958-1959
St. Katherine's School, Headmaster, 1955-1957
Claremont Men's College, 1953-1955
Barstow School, 1951-1953
Administrative and Professional Experience
Served in Navy Air, Torpedo Squadron Six, as a radio gunner
Chesmore Seed Company‑‑junior executive/salesman, St. Joseph, MO
Editorial Assistant, The Historian, Indiana University, 1957‑'59
Associate Director of 3 NDEA institutes, one of which was in Germany
Organized and developed TV series on the Civil War, and U.S. in Pacific
Organized and directed 5 historical conferences
Served as a commissioner on the California Historical Pres. Comm. 1980‑1984
Awarded grants by: American Philosophical Society, Huntington Library, AHA, AASLH, and the Alaska Historical Commission; latter which enabled a year's leave of absence for writing his third Alaskan history
Organizing director of the Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History
Honored with the University's Outstanding Professor Award, 1981
Danforth Associate (with wife);
Phi Beta Kappa from CMC, 1986
Selected Publications
The Americanization of Alaska, 1867‑1897 (Palo Alto, CA 1972)
Alaskan John Green Brady: Missionary, Businessman, Judge, and Governor (Columbus, OH, 1982)
The Canoe Rocks: Alaska's Tlingit and the Euramerican Frontier, 1800‑1912 (Lanham, MD, 1995)
War, Wings, and a Western Youth, 1925‑1945 (Raleigh, NC 1996)
Five anthologies; over thirty articles, and with wife edited two journals
Files
Personal Commentary
Ted's years at San Jose State were richly rewarding. Stimulated by a department which boasted a statewide reputation for its outstanding members (i.e., Anderson, Burdick, Gailey, High, Main, Melendy, Walsh, Wendel, Wheeler, etc.), historian Hinckley wrote three solid books on the history of Alaska. For him the classroom never lost its excitement. Blessed with the relatively light teaching load of a university professor, Hinckley frequently carried an overload; University Extension enabled him to introduce new courses on "Urban History" and "The History of the Pacific." His SJSU graduate students have done well. Perhaps the three most distinguished are Professor John M. Gates at Wooster College, Ohio; Professor Maureen Fastenau at Monash University, Churchill, Australia; and Wyn Wachhorst whose study of Thomas A. Edison became a History Book Club selection. Ted and his wife relish their golden years at lake Whatcom and thank God for His mercy.
Date Completed: 5/16/96
Adapted from: Biographies of Retired Faculty San Jose State University 1997: A Project of the Emeritus Faculty Association of San Jose State University. San Jose, CA: The University, 1997.