David C. Smith (historian)

David C. Smith (1929–2009) was Bird and Bird Professor of History at University of Maine, Orono.^[1][2] He studied the relationship between geography and wealth. He was born in Lewiston, Maine and wrote The First Century: A History of the University of Maine, 1865–1965, the seminal history of the University of Maine.

David C. Smith
Born	1929 Lewiston, Maine
Died	2009
Nationality	American
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	University of Maine

In 1994, Smith won the James Madison Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government for his article with Judy Barrett Litoff, "To the Rescue of the Crops: The Women's Land Army in World War II".^[3]

Publications

• Climate, Agriculture, History: An Introduction. In: Agricultural History, vol. 63, no. 2, 1989, pp. 1–6.
• David C. Smith, (1986) H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.^[4][5][6]