Week Two (September 21): "Where the hell are
we?" The Iraq War, Kosovo, and Other Signposts of Indecision (no more
cold war, sorry!)
Ronald Steel, Temptations of a Superpower (1995)
(the following, all on reserve):
Thomas L. Friedman, "A Manifesto for the Fast World" (1999)
John Lewis Gaddis, "Living in Candlestick Park" (1999)
James B. Rule, "On Evils in the World and America's New World Order"
(1999)
History 454, "The Clinton Doctrine" (1993)
John J. Mearshimer, "Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War" (1990)
Marilyn Young, "This is Not a Pipe" (1991)
Week Three (September 28): Doing the History
of U. S. Foreign Relations
Michael J. Hogan, ed., America in the World: The Historiography of
American Foreign Relations Since 1941 (1995)
Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, eds. Explaining the History
of American Foreign Relations (1991)
Geoffrey S. Smith, et al. "Diplomatic Historians and Their Impact"
(1985) -- reserve
Michael H. Hunt, "Internationalizing U.S. Diplomatic History: A Practical
Agenda" (1991) -- reserve
Week Four (October 5): Economics
Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism
(1999).-- reserve
See relevant references in Hogan, ed., America in the World, and
Hogan and Paterson, eds., Explaining the History...
William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1988)
-- reserve
Week Five (October 12): Race and Ethnicity
Relevant references in Hogan, America in the World, and Hogan and
Paterson, eds., Explaining the History
Alan M. Kraut, Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes and the "Immigrant
Menace" (1995)
Alexander DeConde, Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A
History (1992) -- reserve
John Snetsinger, "Ethnicity and Foreign Policy," in Alexander DeConde,
ed., Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy Vol. I, 322-29 --
reference
Akira Iriye, "Intercultural Relations," ibid., II, 428-42 --
reference
Geoffrey S. Smith, "Nativism," ibid., II, 651-67 -- reference
Janet Davis, "Spectacles of South Asia at the American Circus, 1870-1940,"
(1993) -- reserve
Week Six (October 19): Gender and
Sexuality
Relevant references in Hogan, ed., America in the World, and Hogan
and Paterson, eds., Explaining the History
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of
American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994 (1995) -- reserve
Cynthia Enloe, The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the
Cold War (1994)
"Culture, Gender, and Foreign Policy," symposium in Diplomatic
History (1994) -- reserve
Judith Papachristou, "American Women and Foreign Policy, 1898-1905"
(1990) -- reserve
Rosemary Foot, "Where are the Women?" (1990) -- reserve
Week Seven (October 26): Ideology
Relevant references in Hogan, ed., America in the World, and Hogan
and Paterson, eds., Explaining the History
Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central
America (2nd ed., 1994)
Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1989) --
reserve
Paul Seabury, "Ideology and Foreign Policy," in DeConde,
Encyclopedia, II, 398-408 -- reference
Week Eight (November 2): Culture
Relevant references in Hogan, ed., America in the World, and Hogan
and Paterson, eds., Explaining the History
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1994)
Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the
Colonial Context (1995) -- reserve
Morrell Heald and Lawrence Kaplan, "Introduction" from Culture and
Diplomacy (1978) -- reserve
Akira Iriye, "Intercultural Relations," in DeConde, Encyclopedia,
II, 428-42 -- reference
Week Nine (November 9): American Foreign
Relations: A Peculiar Style?
Robert Dallek, The American Style of Foreign Policy (1983)
Knud Krakau, "American Foreign Relations: A National Style?" (1985) --
reserve
Week Ten (November 16): Expansion and
Imperialism
Louis A. Perez, Jr., The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in
History and Historiography (1998)
James A. Field, Jr., "American Imperialism: The 'Worst Chapter' in Almost
Any Book" (1978) -- reserve
Thomas G. Paterson and Stephen G. Rabe, eds., The Imperial
Surge... (1992) -- reserve
Week Eleven (November 23): The Influence of
Theodore Roosevelt
Frederick Marks III, Velvet on Iron (1979) -- reserve
Robert E. Osgood, Ideals and Self-Interest in America's Foreign
Relations: The Great Transformation of the Twentieth Century (1964),
pp. Ix-222 -- reserve
Eugene Trani, "Cautious Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Diplomacy of
Activism," in Frank J. Merli and Theodore A. Wilson, Makers of American
Diplomacy (1974) -- reserve
Frank Ninkovich, "Theodore Roosevelt and Civilization as Ideology" (1986)
-- reserve
Week Twelve (November 30): From War to Peace,
1914-1921
Lloyd Ambrosius, Wilsonian Statecraft: Theory and Practice of Liberal
Internationalism During World War I (1991)
Osgood, Ideals and Self-Interest, 223-304 -- reserve
Ross Gregory, "To Do Good in the World: Woodrow Wilson and America's
Mission," in Merli and Wilson, eds., Makers... -- reserve
Warren I. Cohen, Empire Without Tears (1987) -- reserve
Osgood, Ideals and Self-Interest, complete -- reserve
Douglas Little, "Antibolshevism and American Foreign Policy, 1919-1939:
The Diplomacy of Self-Delusion" (1983) -- reserve
Charles DeBenedetti, "Peace Was His Profession: James T. Shotwell and
American Internationalism," in Merli and Wilson, eds., Makers --
reserve
William Kamman, "Henry L. Stimson: Republican Internationalist," in
ibid. -- reserve
Week Fourteen (January 18):
Depression and the Coming of WW II
Akira Iriye, Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (1999)
Justus D. Doenecke and John E. Wilz, From Isolation to War,
1931-1941 (1991)
Geoffrey S. Smith, To Save a Nation: American "Extremism," the New
Deal, and the Coming of World War II (1992)
Bruce M. Russett, No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the
U.S. Entry into World War II (1972) -- reserve
Russell D. Buhite, "The Open Door in Perspective: Stanley K. Hornbeck and
American Foreign Policy," in Merli and Wilson, eds., Makers --
reserve
Theodore A. Wilson and Richard D. McKinzie, "The Masks of Power: Franklin
D. Roosevelt and the Conduct of American Diplomacy," in ibid. --
reserve
Week Fifteen and Sixteen (January
25; February 1): World War II -- Europe and Asia
John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
(1986) -- reserve
Gary R. Hess, The United States at War, 1941-1945 (1991) -- reserve
John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War,
1941-1947 (1973) to p. 243 -- reserve
Wilson and McKinzie, "Masks of Power," see week fourteen -- reserve
Frank Costigliola, "'Mixed Up' and 'Contact': Culture and Emotion Among
the Allies in the Second World War" (1998) -- reserve
Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry L Kitano, eds., Japanese
Americans: From Relocation to Redress (1991) -- reserve
Roger Daniels, Concentration Camps North America (1981) -- reserve
Geoffrey S. Smith, "Doing Justice: Relocation and Equity in Public Policy"
(1984) -- reserve
Week Seventeen (February 8): The Origins of the
Cold War
Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, The
Truman Administration, and the Cold War (1992) -- reserve
Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the
Disillusioning of a Generation (1995[1999]), passim. [noted here as
key culture reference for the entire post WWII era]
Thomas G. Paterson, Meeting the Communist Threat (1988), preface,
pp. 3-53 -- reserve
John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold
War, complete -- reserve
________________, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of
Postwar United States National Security Policy (1982), to p. 53. --
reserve
--------------------------, "The Emergent Post-Revisionist Synthesis on
the Origins of the Cold War" (1983), with comments by Lloyd Gardner,
Lawrence Kaplan, Warren Kimball, and Bruce Kuniholm -- reserve
----------------------------, et al., "The Soviet Side of the Cold
War: A Symposium" (1991) -- reserve
Howard Jones, et al., "The Origins of the Cold War: A Symposium"
(1993) -- reserve
Week Eighteen (February 15): The Cold War to
1953
Ernest R. May, ed., America's Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC
68 (1993)
Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1995 (8th
ed., 1995), pp. 1-145
Paterson, Meeting the Communist Threat, pp. 54-108 -- reserve
Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, pp. 54-126 -- reserve
Robert Jervis, "The Impact of the Korean War on the Cold War" (1980)
Film, The Manchurian Candidate (1963)
Engelhardt, End of Victory Culture, passim.
Geoffrey S. Smith, "National Security and Personal Isolation: Sex, Gender
and Disease in the Cold-War United States" (1992) -- reserve
-------------------------, "Containments, 'Disease,' and Cold War Culture"
(1998) -- reserve
-------------------------, "Interrogating Security: A Life Story in
History, 1941-1954" (1999) -- reserve
Michelle Mart, "Tough Guys and American Cold War Policy: Images of Israel,
1948-1960" (1996) -- reserve
Geoffrey S. Smith, "Beware, the Historian! Hiroshima, The Enola Gay, and
the Dangers of History," (1998) -- reserve
--------------------------, "'Harry, We Hardly Know You': Revisionism,
Politics, and Diplomacy, 1948-1954" (1976) -- reserve
Reading Week!
Week Nineteen (February 29): Eisenhower and
Kennedy Foreign Policy
LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, pp. 146-237
George C. Herring, America's Longest War: The United States and
Vietnam, 1950-1975 (2nd ed), to p. 107 -- reserve
Paterson, Meeting the Communist Threat, pp. 159-221 -- reserve
Robert A. Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War (1981) -- reserve
Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, pp. 127-236
Ronald Steel, "Two Cheers for Ike" (1981) -- reserve
Burton I. Kaufman, "John F. Kennedy as World Leader" (1993) -- reserve
Robert D. Dean, "Masculinity as Ideology: John F. Kennedy and the Domestic
Politics of Foreign Policy" (1998) -- reserve
Week Twenty (March 7): The United States
in Vietnam [Johnson-Nixon]
Herring, America's Longest War, pp. 108-288 -- reserve
Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, pp. 237-358 [emphasize 237-273]
-- reserve
LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, pp. 237-285
Paterson, Meeting the Communist Threat, passim. -- reserve
David K. Shipler, "Robert McNamara and the Ghosts of Vietnam" (1997)
-- reserve
Geoffrey S. Smith, "Light at the End of the Tunnel?" (1991) --reserve
Peter Marin, "Coming to Terms with Vietnam" (1970) -- reserve
Week Twenty-One (March 14): From Nixon to Carter
LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, pp. 286 ff.
Richard Melanson, Reconstructing Consensus: American Foreign Policy
since the Vietnam War (1991), pp. 1-129 -- reserve
Paterson, Meeting the Communist Threat , pp. 222-255 -- reserve
Robert D. Schulzinger, "The Naïve and Sentimental Diplomat: Henry
Kissinger's Memoirs (1980) -- reserve
Robert L. Beisner, "History and Henry Kissinger" (1990) -- reserve
Joan Hoff- Wilson, "Nixingerism, NATO, and Détente" (1989 --
reserve
Melvyn P. Leffler, "From the Truman Doctrine to the Carter Doctrine"
(1983) -- reserve
Walter LaFeber, "From Confusion to Cold War: The Memoirs of the Carter
Administration" (1984) -- reserve
Robert D. Schulzinger, "Patterns in the Mess: The United States and
Nicaragua" (1989) -- reserve
Week Twenty-Two (March 21): The Reagan
Restoration, the Good Mr. Bush, and Bubba / Full Circle -- the end of
the cold war and the beginning of what?
LaFeber, Melanson, Paterson -- complete
Mary Anne Weaver, "Children of the Jihad" (1997) -- reserve
History 454/854, "The End of the Cold War, Parts 1 & 2" (1992 -- reserve
Frances FitzGerald, "Reflections -- The American Millennium" (1987) --
reserve
Michael Hogan, ed., essays on "The American Century, Parts 1 & 2," from
Diplomatic History (1999) -- reserve
Weeks Twenty-Three, Twenty-Four, and Perhaps
Twenty-Five: Research paper consultations and presentations
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