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Clayton\r\n            \r\n                    <\/span>\r\n            <\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f1ff1d elementor-widget elementor-widget-ct_text_editor\" data-id=\"8f1ff1d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ct_text_editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div id=\"ct_text_editor-8f1ff1d\" class=\"ct-text-editor \" data-wow-delay=\"ms\">\n\t<div class=\"ct-inline-css\"  data-css=\"\n        \t\t\">\n\n    <\/div>\n\t<div class=\"ct-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t<p>Lawrence A. Clayton was born October 5, 1942, in Summit, New Jersey. He lived in Peru for seven years. He attended Duke University (BA, 1964), and earned his MA (1969) and PhD (1972) at Tulane University in Latin American History. From 1964 to 1966 he served as an officer in the US Navy on the USS Donner (LSD-20), cruising both in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet. He was Gunnery (Weapons) Officer.<\/p><p>He was on the faculty of the University of Alabama from 1972 to 2013. He directed the Latin American Studies Program from 1980 to 1992. He was Chair of Department of History (2000-2007) and was Interim Chair (2009-2010). His specialties focused on Latin American history and the history of the Christian church. He is now Professor Emeritus of History.<\/p><p>He held two Senior Fulbright Lecturing Awards, one in 1983 to Costa Rica and one in 1988 to Peru. In 1983 he served as President of the South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies. In 1999, he held a year-long Pew Evangelical Scholars Fellowship.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">In November 2015 he was inducted as a Knight Commander of the Imperial Order of Charles V in the Alcazar Palace, Segovia, Spain. In February 2017, he was also inducted into the Royal Hispanic American Academy of Sciences, Arts &amp; Letters in Cadiz, Spain.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n                <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c48dfe4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default ct-header-fixed-none ct-row-max-none\" data-id=\"c48dfe4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-50d8f27\" data-id=\"50d8f27\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cd7c5e elementor-widget elementor-widget-ct_heading\" data-id=\"3cd7c5e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ct_heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ct-heading h-align-  sub-style1 ct-heading-left item-st-default\">\r\n\t    <h3 class=\"item--title st-default \" data-wow-delay=\"ms\">\r\n                <span class=\"sp-main\">\r\n            \r\n            Publications and Papers\r\n            \r\n                    <\/span>\r\n            <\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-793e23d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"793e23d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong><b>Books<\/b><\/strong><strong><b>:<\/b><\/strong><\/p><ol><li>Los astilleros de Guayaquil colonial.\u00a0 Guayaquil: Archivo Hist\u00f3rico del Guayas, 1978.<\/li><li>Caulkers and Carpenters in the New World:\u00a0 The Shipyards of Colonial Guayaquil.\u00a0 Athens, Ohio: Center for International Studies, 1980. A revised translation of Los astilleros de Guayaquil.<\/li><li>The Bolivarian Nations.\u00a0 Arlington Heights, Illinois: Forum Press, 1984.<\/li><li>Alabama and the Borderlands:\u00a0 From Prehistory to Statehood co-edited with Reid Badger.\u00a0 University: Alabama:\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1985.<\/li><li>Grace: W. R. Grace &amp; Co., The Formative Years,1850-1930. Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, 1985.<\/li><li>The Hispanic Experience in North America: Sources for Study in the United States. Editor. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1992.<\/li><li>The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543. co-edited with Vernon James Knight, Jr. and Edward C. Moore. 2 vols. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1993.<\/li><li>Merchant Adventurer: The Story of W. R. Grace, by Marquis James.\u00a0Introduction by L. Clayton. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Press, 1993.<\/li><li>Las relaciones peruano-estadounidenses desde la \u00e9poca de la independencia hasta el siglo xx. in XVI Cuadernos de Historia.\u00a0Lima, Peru: Universidad de Lima, 1993. Lectures delivered as a Fulbright Scholar in Lima, 1988.<\/li><li>A History of Modern Latin America. co-authored with Michael L. Conniff. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt, Brace, 1999. 2nd\u00a0 Edition. Wadsworth Publishers, 2005. 3rd. edition, University of California Press, 2017, retitled to A New History of Modern Latin America.<\/li><li>Los EE.UU. y el Per\u00fa: 1800-1995. Lima, Peru: Centro Peruano de Estudios Internaciones y Xerox del Peru, 1998.\u00a02nd edition, June 2002.<\/li><li>Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1999.<\/li><li>R. Grace &amp; Co.: los a\u00f1os formativos, 1850-1930.\u00a0Translation of Grace: W. R. Grace &amp; Co., The Formative Years,1850-1930. Lima, Peru: Thalassa, 2008. New Introduction and Epilog.<\/li><li>Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2011.<\/li><li>Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas: A Biography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.<\/li><li>Cleared for Landing: On Living a Christian Life. Xlibris, 2008<\/li><li>The Andean Cross. A Matthew Western novel. JustFiction!Edition. Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany, 2012.<\/li><li>Work and Wealth in Scripture. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf &amp; Stock, Publishers, 2015.<\/li><li>A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas. Introduction by L. A. Clayton. In a series entitled Christian Classics. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Regimen Books, 2017.<\/li><li>My Christian Prism, or the Best of the Port Rail. Indianapolis, Indiana: Archway Publishers, a Division of Simon &amp; Schuster, 2019.<\/li><li>Martin Luther, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. Introduction by Lawrenc A. Clayton. In a series entitled Christian Classics. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Regimen Books, 2020.<\/li><li>Election 2020 Reader: Your Essential Christian Guide to the 2020 Presidential Election. Westwood Books, 2020.<\/li><li>Memoirs of a Southern, Yankee, Hispanic. 2022.<\/li><li>The Push Back. Fulton Books, 2022.<\/li><li>A New Tale of Two Cities. 2022.<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54ea367 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-ct_button\" data-id=\"54ea367\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ct_button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ct-button-wrapper ct-button-layout1 icon- btn--inline \">\r\n            <span class=\"ct-icon-active\"><\/span>\r\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.authorlawrenceclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Origins-of-DEI_-Opinion_-Epoch-Times-June-19-25-2024-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn btn-default icon-active btn-inline-block  \" data-wow-delay=\"ms\">\r\n                            <span class=\"ct-button-icon ct-align-icon-\">\r\n                            <\/span>\r\n                <span class=\"ct-button-text\">Click here to download<\/span>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n                <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7b57d33 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default ct-header-fixed-none ct-row-max-none\" data-id=\"7b57d33\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-12bc95a\" data-id=\"12bc95a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70d7d03 elementor-widget elementor-widget-ct_heading\" data-id=\"70d7d03\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ct_heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ct-heading h-align-  sub-style1 ct-heading-left item-st-default\">\r\n\t    <h3 class=\"item--title st-default \" data-wow-delay=\"ms\">\r\n                <span class=\"sp-main\">\r\n            \r\n            Contributions to Books\r\n            \r\n                    <\/span>\r\n            <\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efb3cf1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"efb3cf1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>&#8220;A Shared Prosperity: \u00a0W. R. Grace &amp; Co. and Modern Peru, 1852-1952,&#8221; Robert Claxton, ed. <u>Studies in the Social Sciences<\/u>. \u00a0Carrollton, Georgia: \u00a0West Georgia College, 1978.<\/li><li>&#8220;Maritime Exploration,&#8221; Helen Delpar, ed. <u>The Discoverers: \u00a0An Encyclopedia of Explorers and Exploration<\/u>. \u00a0New York: McGraw Hill, 1979, pp. 381-390.<\/li><li>&#8220;Trade and Navigation in the Seventeenth Century Viceroyalty of Peru&#8221; article republished in John J. Johnson, Peter Bakewell, and Meredith Dodge, eds.<u>\u00a0Readings in Latin American History<\/u>. \u00a0Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1985.<\/li><li>&#8220;Merchant Adventurer: William R. Grace,&#8221; in Judith Ewell and William H. Beezley, eds. and contributors, <u>The Human Tradition in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century<\/u>. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1989.<\/li><li>&#8220;Early Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Peru,&#8221; T. Ray Shurbutt, ed., <u>United<\/u>\u00a0<u>States-Latin American Relations: \u00a0the Formative<\/u>\u00a0<u>Generation<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0(University of Alabama Press, 1991).<\/li><li>&#8220;Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas and His Spiritual Awakening,&#8221; pp. 120-132 in <u>Toward the Year 2000: Points of Convergence in the Americas<\/u>, Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Americas Conference, Tampa, Florida, January, 1998.<\/li><li>&#8220;Peru and the United States, 1850-1903&#8221; in Thomas Leonard, ed., <u>United States and Latin America, 1850-1903: Establishing a Relationship<\/u>\u00a0(Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, Feb., 1999).<\/li><li>&#8220;The Iberian Advantage,&#8221; in George Raudzen, ed. <u>Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries : Essays \u00a0Reappraising the Guns and Germs Theories<\/u><\/li><li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001).<\/li><li>\u201cTeaching Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas through the Lens of the Historian,\u201d in <u>Teaching Las Casas<\/u>, edited and with introductions by Eyda Merediz and Santa Arias, to be published in 2008 by the Modern Language Association.<\/li><li>\u201cBartolom\u00e9 de las Casas.\u201d In Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.<\/li><li>\u201cBiographies of Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas\u201d in Oxford Companion to Las Casas, edited by Michael Oborne and\u00a0Philippe Andr\u00e9 Rodr\u00edguez, University of Oxford, forttcoming, 2016.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n                <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6a3d4e6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default ct-header-fixed-none ct-row-max-none\" data-id=\"6a3d4e6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a37aeb4\" data-id=\"a37aeb4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69baa54 elementor-widget elementor-widget-ct_heading\" data-id=\"69baa54\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ct_heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ct-heading h-align-  sub-style1 ct-heading-left item-st-default\">\r\n\t    <h3 class=\"item--title st-default \" data-wow-delay=\"ms\">\r\n                <span class=\"sp-main\">\r\n            \r\n            Articles:\r\n            \r\n                    <\/span>\r\n            <\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3acbabe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3acbabe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>&#8220;Guayaquil y la defensa de la hegemon\u00eda espa\u00f1ola en el Pac\u00edfico oriental durante los siglos XVI y XVII,&#8221;<u>\u00a0Revista del Archivo Hist\u00f3rico del Guayas<\/u>, Guayaquil, Ecuador, n\u00fam. 4 (Diciembre, 1973), 27-46.<\/li><li>&#8220;Notes on the Shipwreck of <u>Nuestra Se\u00f1ora del Rosario<\/u>, a Seventeenth Century Peruvian Merchantman,&#8221; <u>South Eastern Latin Americanist<\/u>, 17:4 (March, 1974), 1-6.<\/li><li>&#8220;Local Initiative and Finance in Defense of the Viceroyalty of Peru: \u00a0The Development of Self-Reliance,&#8221; <u>Hispanic American Historical Review<\/u>, \u00a054:2 (May, 1974, 284-304.<\/li><li>&#8220;Documentos en el Archivo General de Indias para el estudio de la historia mar\u00edtima y comercial de Guayaquil en el siglo XVII,&#8221; <u>Revista del Archivo Hist\u00f3rico del Guayas<\/u>, n\u00fam. 7 (Deciembre, 1974).<\/li><li>&#8220;Trade and Navigation in the Seventeenth Century Viceroyalty of Peru,&#8221; <u>Journal of Latin American Studies<\/u>, 7:1 (May, 1975), 1-21.<\/li><li>&#8220;Ships and Empire: \u00a0The Case of Spain,&#8221; <u>The Mariner&#8217;s Mirror<\/u>, 62:3 (August, 1976), 235-248.<\/li><li>&#8220;Sources in Lima for the Study of the Colonial Consulado of Peru,&#8221; <u>The Americas<\/u>, 33:3 (January, 1977), 457-469.<\/li><li>&#8220;A Comment on &#8216;Latin American Studies,'&#8221; \u00a0<u>Latin American Research Review<\/u>, 12:2 (Summer, 1977), 243-247.<\/li><li>&#8220;Ca\u00f1ones en Ca\u00f1ete 1615: \u00a0la Armada Real del Mar del Sur y la defensa del virreinato del Per\u00fa,&#8221; <u>Memoria del Tercer Congreso Venezolano de Historia<\/u>. \u00a03 vols.; Caracas, Venezuela: \u00a0Academia Nacional de Historia, 1979, 443-462.<\/li><li>&#8220;Comercio y navegaci\u00f3n en el virreinato del Per\u00fa durante el siglo XVII,&#8221; <u>Revista del Archivo Hist\u00f3rico del Guayas<\/u>, 8:1 (Diciembre, 1979), 39-59.<\/li><li>&#8220;Chinese Indentured Labour in Peru,&#8221; <u>History Today<\/u>, 30 (June, 1980), 19-23.<\/li><li>&#8220;The Borderlands Revisited,&#8221; \u00a0<u>Latin American Research Review<\/u>, 15:3 (1980), 261-265.<\/li><li>&#8220;Melting Pot Mayor: \u00a0William Russell Grace and the Election of 1880,&#8221; <u>Columbia Library Columns<\/u>, 30:1 (November, 1980), 28-34. \u00a0Reprinted by W. R. Grace &amp; Co., April, 1981.<\/li><li>&#8220;Life at Sea in Colonial Spanish America: \u00a0The New World Experience,&#8221; Paul Adam, ed., <u>Proceedings of the International Commission of Maritime History<\/u>\u00a0(Bucharest, 1980), Part III, pp. 16-39.<\/li><li>&#8220;Galleons for the Royal South Seas Fleet: \u00a0Naval Shipyards in the New World,&#8221; <u>Aspects of Naval History: \u00a0Proceedings of the Fourth Naval History Symposium<\/u>. \u00a0Annapolis: \u00a0Naval History Symposium, 1981.<\/li><li>&#8220;John Tyler Morgan and the Nicaragua Canal, 1897-1900,&#8221;<u>\u00a0South Eastern Latin Americanist<\/u>, 27:2 (September, 1983), 1-22.<\/li><li>&#8220;John Tyler Morgan y el Canal de Nicaragua, 1897-1900.&#8221;<u>\u00a0<\/u><u>Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos<\/u>, 9 (1983), 37-53.<\/li><li>&#8220;The Columbian Exchange: \u00a0Five Hundred Years Later,&#8221;<u>\u00a0Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Studies<\/u>, 10:1 (Jan., 1985), 4-8.<\/li><li>&#8220;On Patriotism, Peace, and Neutrality,&#8221; <u>South Eastern Latin Americanist<\/u>, 28:4 (March, 1985), 21-23.<\/li><li>&#8220;Private Matters: \u00a0The Origins and Nature of United States Peruvian Relations, 1820-1850,&#8221; <u>The Americas<\/u>, 42:4 (April, 1986), 377-417.<\/li><li>&#8220;The Maritime Trade of Peru in the Seventeenth Century,&#8221; <u>The Mariner&#8217;s Mirror<\/u>\u00a072:2 (May, 1986), 159-177.<\/li><li>&#8220;The Spanish Heritage of the Southeast,&#8221; <u>Alabama Heritage<\/u>, no.4 (Spring, 1987), 2-11.<\/li><li>&#8220;The Nicaragua Canal in the Nineteenth Century: Prelude to American Empire&#8221; <u>Journal of Latin<\/u>\u00a0<u>American Studies<\/u>. 19:2 (November, 1987), 323-352.<\/li><li>&#8220;Canal Morgan,&#8221; <u>Alabama Review<\/u>, 25 (Summer, 1992), 6-19.<\/li><li>\u201cTwentieth Century Argonauts: First Flights Over the South Sea: A Brief History of Aerial Exploration of the Great South Sea in Honor of Alvaro de Menda\u00f1a,&#8221; <u>Derroteros de la Mar del Sur<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0[journal published by the Asociaci\u00f3n de Historia Mar\u00edtima y Naval Iberoamericana (Peru), the Centro de Estudios Malaspiniacos \u201cAlessandro Malaspina\u201d (Italy), \u00a0the Patronato del Faro a Col\u00f3n (Dominican Republic) and the Centro Franco Iberoamericano de Historia Mar\u00edtima (France)], number 6 (1999), pp. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li>\u201cLas Casas, Mariner, 1502-1520,\u201d <u>Derroteros del al Mar del Sur<\/u>, A\u00f1o 7, 1999, N\u00fam 7, 27-36.<\/li><li>\u201cWilliam Russell Grace,\u201d in &#8220;Irish Migration Studies in Latin America&#8221; <u>www.irlandeses.org<\/u>\u00a0ISSN 1661-6065 Volume 4, Number 4 (October 2006), pp. 263-266. Editors: Edmundo Murray and Claire Healy. Also to appear in Dictionary of Irish Latin American Biography.<\/li><li>\u201cBartolom\u00e9 de las Casas and the African Slave Trade,\u201d <em>History Compass<\/em>, published online <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/122679155\/issue\">Volume 7 Issue 6<\/a><strong><b>,\u00a0Pages\u00a01526\u00a0\u2013\u00a01541 .Published Online: <\/b><\/strong>10\u00a0Sep\u00a02009.\u00a9 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd\/<\/li><li>\u201cWhy Nobody Likes a Prophet: Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas, a Loud Voice in the Wilderness, Cogent Arts &amp; Humanities (2016), 3: 1124480; <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/23311983.2015.1124480\"><u>http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/23311983.2015.1124480<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/li><li>\u201cLa batalla de Mabila y Hernando de Soto en la historia de America, \u201cDiscurso de ingreso de nuevos academics, published online at Revista Digital, Real Academia Hispano Americana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras, Revista No. 8 (2018). <a href=\"http:\/\/revista.raha.es\/actual.html\"><u>http:\/\/revista.raha.es\/actual.html<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/li><li>James A. Martin, Lawrence A. Clayton &amp; Michael W. Parker, \u201cLooking back on wartime service: Reminiscence by James G. Van Straten,\u201d Journal of Aging &amp; Mental Health:DOI: 10.1080\/13607863.2019.1609904. <strong><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n                <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a5d19f8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default ct-header-fixed-none ct-row-max-none\" data-id=\"a5d19f8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2516cf0\" data-id=\"2516cf0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-203aff4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-ct_heading\" data-id=\"203aff4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ct_heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ct-heading h-align-  sub-style1 ct-heading-left item-st-default\">\r\n\t    <h3 class=\"item--title st-default \" data-wow-delay=\"ms\">\r\n                <span class=\"sp-main\">\r\n            \r\n            Works In Progress:\u00a0\u00a0\r\n            \r\n                    <\/span>\r\n            <\/h3>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n                <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ff9575f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default ct-header-fixed-none ct-row-max-none\" data-id=\"ff9575f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e7cb796\" data-id=\"e7cb796\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-570274e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"570274e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His current projects include a new ms. on the iconic Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas for a British publisher, Boydell &amp; Brewer. That book-length project was commissioned by the publisher and is finished and now under review for publication.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He has been working off and on the script to a new movie on the Doolittle Raid of 1942 with a colleague, Reginald Hyde. A professional script is now under preparation.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is working on a second novel (the first one is listed above in some of his publications; its name is\u00a0<em><i>The Andean Cross<\/i><\/em>) on the fourth missionary journey of the Apostle Paul to the nascent Christian communities of Spain, especially in the city of Cadiz. The first draft of that novel now finished and with a publisher, Stanford Books.!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Underway in different phases is volume two of his memoirs. The first is listed in the full CV attached,\u00a0<em><i>Memoir of a Southern, Yankee, Hispanic<\/i><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He\u2019s also working on a new novel on Americans in revolutionary Central America.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His next history book is a study of the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, focusing not only on Cuba but also the entire Central American region and major islands of Cuba and the Dominican Republic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He has written OpEds over the years for newspapers, all the way from the\u00a0<em><i>Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/i><\/em>and the\u00a0<em><i>Christian Science Monitor<\/i><\/em>\u00a0among those with national audiences, to the\u00a0<em><i>Tuscalaoosa News<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em><i>Northport Gazette<\/i><\/em>\u00a0for local and state readers.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Clayton was also a licensed pilot for over twenty years, flying largely small Cessna aircraft (he owned a Cessna 337, a Skymaster, for about fifteen years) before retiring from piloting about 2010.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He and his wife Louise have two daughters and a son, Carlton, who is a pilot with TMC Charter Jets. Clayton\u2019s step-daughter, Amy Alderman, MD (UAB) is a plastic surgeon in Alpharetta, Georgia, and Stephanie Richmond, his next oldest, is the SVP of Human Resources for a major exercise corporation on the West Coast. Both daughters have two children.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since 2000, Clayton has participated in a Christian jail ministry program at the Tuscaloosa County Jail on a weekly basis, and his wife Louise is a licensed and ordained minister who teaches a Monday evening course on Christianity and the Bible to female inmates. Her weekly lesson on the Bible can be seen at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudywithlouiseclayton.com\/\"><u>www.biblestudywithlouiseclayton.com<\/u><\/a>\u00a0. The videographer is the writer, now videographer, her husband.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They attend New Harvest Community Church in Tuscaloosa. Clayton also writes a column, &#8220;The Port Rail&#8221; for\u00a0the\u00a0<em><i>Northport Gazette<\/i><\/em>\u00a0that appears weekly.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In November 2015 he was inducted as a Knight Commander of the Imperial Order of Charles V in the Alcazar Palace, Segovia, Spain. In February 2017, he was also inducted into the Royal Hispanic American Academy of Sciences, Arts &amp; Letters in Cadiz, Spain.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n        \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Lawrence A. Clayton Lawrence A. Clayton was born October 5, 1942, in Summit, New Jersey. He lived in Peru for seven years. He attended Duke University (BA, 1964), and earned his MA (1969) and PhD (1972) at Tulane University in Latin American History. 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