{{Short description|American historian}}{{Infobox academic | name = Roland Marchand | birth_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S. | birth_date = 1933 | death_date = November 14, 1997 (aged 64) | education = Stanford University (BA, MA, PhD) | discipline = American history | workplaces = University of California, Davis | birth_name = Charles Roland Marchand }}
'''Charles Roland Marchand''' (1933 – November 14, 1997) was an American historian who taught at the University of California, Davis, where he co-founded the History Project.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://marchand.dss.ucdavis.edu/ | title=Marchand Archive | work=University of California, Davis | accessdate=10 June 2016}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Marchand received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism ''summa cum laude'' from Stanford University in 1955, after which he served as an officer in the United States Navy for three years. He received his Master of Arts in 1961 and his PhD in 1964, also from Stanford.<ref name="ucd">{{cite web | url=http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/marchand/about.php | title=Roland Marchand | publisher=University of California, Davis | work=History Project | accessdate=10 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="calisphere">{{cite web | url=http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1r29n709;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00042&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere | title=Roland Marchand, History: Davis | work=Calisphere | accessdate=10 May 2016}}</ref>
==Career== In 1964, Marchand joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, where he specialized in 20th-century American history. He continued to teach there until being hospitalized in 1997 shortly before his death. He also served as the co-director of the Area 3 History and Cultures Project.<ref name=ucd/>
Marchand was the author of three American history books: ''The American Peace Movement and Social Reform, 1898-1918'', ''Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940'', and ''Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business''.<ref name=calisphere/> ''Advertising the American Dream'' has been called "a model of conceptual precision and scrupulous research" by Susan Strasser.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Strasser|first1=Susan|last2=Marchand|first2=Roland|last3=Morgan|first3=Hal|last4=Horowitz|first4=Daniel|title=Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940|journal=The New England Quarterly|date=December 1986|volume=59|issue=4|pages=613|doi=10.2307/365255|jstor=365255 }}</ref>
Marchand received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Davis' academic senate.<ref name=ucd/>
==Personal life== Marchand died on November 14, 1997, of pulmonary fibrosis.<ref name=calisphere/>
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