William A. Paquette
William A. Paquette, Ph. D. (United States) was a Professor of History at Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, Virginia, where he taught Latin American History, World Civilization, U. S. History, and Western Civilization. Professor Paquette received a Master's Degree from Duquesne University (Pittsburgh) and a Ph. D. from Emory University (Atlanta). During his academic career, Dr. Paquette was awarded 14 National Endowment for the Humanities Grants for professional study and Institutional...See more
William A. Paquette, Ph. D. (United States) was a Professor of History at Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, Virginia, where he taught Latin American History, World Civilization, U. S. History, and Western Civilization. Professor Paquette received a Master's Degree from Duquesne University (Pittsburgh) and a Ph. D. from Emory University (Atlanta). During his academic career, Dr. Paquette was awarded 14 National Endowment for the Humanities Grants for professional study and Institutional grants that enabled him to study and conduct research in China and Japan. He traveled to southern Mexico over a ten-year period, examining the archaeology at the Maya and Aztec sites, and studied the Maya language at Duke University (Durham, NC). Professor Paquette presented research at international conferences at the University of Louvain (Belgium), the Sorbonne (Paris), the University of Acala de Henares (Spain), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Lorand Eotvos University (Budapest), and San Pablo University (Madrid). He has published almost 200 articles and sixteen books and served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education, the United States Institute of Peace, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and all major history textbook publishers. For a decade, he was the History Editor for the international MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) Project, instructing college and university faculty on how to teach online courses. In 2016, Dr. Paquette went to Eastern Europe to study firsthand the legacy of World War II and Communism on the people and nations of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and the Czech Republic. During his professional career, Dr. Paquette met the late King Michael I and the late Queen Anne of Romania, King Simeon II of Bulgaria, the late Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, members of the British Royal Family, and numerous Heads of Government from the European States. Dr. Paquette joined the Mayflower Society of Virginia in 1990 and served that Society as Assistant Historian, Historian, Deputy Governor, and Governor. In 2010, Dr. Paquette was awarded an NEH Grant of $155,000 to bring 50 college faculty to Plymouth to study the most recent research on the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians. He also served the General Society as Chairman of the Education Committee for three years from 2009 to 2012. In retirement, Dr. Paquette joined the District of Columbia Mayflower Society. See less