Melvin Small (born March 14, 1939, in New York City) is an American academic working as a distinguished professor emeritus of history at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Small earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1960 and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1965.
Small has concentrated his research and writing on the post-war era, with an emphasis on the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, and presidents Johnson and Nixon.
He was a co-investigator on the quantitative IR project, the Correlates of War, WSU's NCAA faculty advisor, and department chair.
[1] A former president of the Peace History Society, Small has written or edited fifteen books, including Johnson, Nixon and the Doves (1988), Democracy and Diplomacy (1996), The Presidency of Richard Nixon (1999), Antiwarriors (2002), and At the Water's Edge (2005).