(born 1940) is an American historian, author, and educator.
His specialization is late 19th- and early 20th-century American Diplomatic History.
Cooper is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.His most recent book, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, was published in 2009.
It is described as "the first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades." The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.