Henry C. Dethloff

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Henry Clay Dethloff
Born August 10, 1934 (1934-08-10) (age 73)
Flag of Louisiana Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, USA
Residence Flag of Texas College Station, Texas
Occupation Author
College professor
Historian
Spouse Myrtle Ann Dethloff
Children Carl Henry Dethloff
Clay Elliott Dethloff
Notes
(1) Much of Dethloff's writings center upon Texas A&M University in College Statiopn, where he instructed history for some three decades. (2) Dethloff has written a history of the university, a study of TAMU students going to war, and a history of the TAMU press.

Henry Clay Dethloff (born August 10, 1934) is professor of HistoryEmeritus at Texas A&M University in College Station who has written more than two dozen books on topics ranging from the space program to agriculture, American business, and Texas A&M itself, the institution with which he was primarily affiliated during his academic career.

Dethloff, the son of Carl Curt Dethloff (1900-1977) and the former Camelia Jordan (1907-2000), grew up in Natchitoches, an historic city in north central Louisiana. His brother was Carl Richard "Dick" Dethloff (1929-2007), a graduate of Kansas State University in Manhattan who became a prominent insurance agent in Shreveport. Dethloff also has a sister, Cammie D. Girand.

Dethloff graduated from Natchitoches High School in 1952. He received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1956, his Master of Arts from Northwestern State University (then College) in Natchitoches in 1960, and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1964. He joined the TAMU faculty in 1969 and served as the department chairman from 1980 to 1985.

One of his most publicized works is A Pictorial History of Texas A & M: A Tradition in Higher Education, which was published as two titles in 1975: A Pictorial History of Texas A & M University: 1876-1976 (TAMU Press) and A Centennial History of Texas A & M University: 1876-1976 (the Association of Former Students in conjunction with TAMU Press).

Dethloff's other books include:

  • The United States and the Global Economy Since 1945
  • Texas Aggies Go to War: In Service to Their Country (with John A. Adams, Jr.)
  • Voyagers Grand Tour: To the Outer Planets and Beyond (with Joli A. Ballew, 2003, includes access to the archives of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
  • Suddenly Tomorrow Came: A History of the Johnson Space Center
  • A Bookmark: Texas A&M University Press
  • Our Louisiana Legacy (an examination at how Louisiana culture has affected the nation)
  • Special Kind of Doctor: A History of Veterinary Medicine in Texas
  • Southwestern Agriculture: Pre-Columbian to Modern
  • Pattillo Higgins and the Search for Texas Oil (with Robert W. McDaniel)
  • Sterling C. Evans: Life, Learning, and Literature.

Dethloff has established extensive archives of his publication materials at the Sterling C. Evans Library at TAMU.

Dethloff and his wife, Myrtle Ann Dethloff, reside in College Station. They have two married sons, Carl Henry Dethloff and Clay Elliott Dethloff.

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