Dodd, William Edward (1869-1940), a noted American historian, served as United States ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937. As ambassador, he protested Adolf Hitler's policies, but the U.S. State Department recalled him from Germany. Dodd published the widely read Ambassador Dodd's Diary and made lecture tours in the United States criticizing Nazi Germany. His historical works include Jefferson Davis, Expansion and Conflict, Statesmen of the Old South, and Woodrow Wilson and His Work.