T. Walter Wallbank

Thomas Walter Wallbank (July 27, 1901 – May 16, 1992) was an American historian and one of the original authors of the best-selling textbook Civilization Past & Present.

Civilization (1942) was the first world-history textbook published in the United States to enjoy great success in sales.

There had been a widespread sentiment in the United States that the country should avoid entanglements in foreign affairs, an attitude the authors thought was reflected in the limitations of most survey courses on Western culture.

They believed that the country would need an informed citizenry for the role the United States would play in the world in coming decades.

He received the Watumull Prize of the American Historical Association award in 1950 for another book, India in the New Era.