 Over the past two decades, 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.A historian of American foreign policy, he studies public opinion, domestic politics and foreign policy, a subject reflected in his recent monographs and several theoretical articles.He was a co-investigator on the quantitative IR project, the Correlates of War, WSU's NCAA faculty advisor, and department chair.