Diplomatic History Research Seminar

SELECT RESOURCES

Recommended References: Textbooks on US Foreign Relations and Historiography:

Jerald A. Combs, The History of American Foreign Policy, 2^nd ed. (McGraw Hill, 1997). [includes lengthy historiographical discussion]

Michael J. Hogan, ed. America in the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941 (Cambridge University Press, 1995). [historiographical essays]

Michael J. Hogan, ed. Paths to Power: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 (Cambridge University Press, 2000). [historiographical essays]

Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 1^st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1991). [useful, and differs substantially from 2^nd ed.]

H.W. Brands, The United States and the World: A History of American Foreign Policy, 2 vols. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994).

Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, vol. I: The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Walter LaFeber, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, vol. II: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Akira Iriye, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, vol. III: The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Warren I. Cohen, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, vol. IV: America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, and Kenneth J. Hagan, American Foreign Relations: A History, 5^th ed., 2 vols. (Houghton Mifflin, 2000).

Walter LaFeber, The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, 1750 to the Present, 2^nd ed. (W.W. Norton & Company, 1994).

Select Web Resources:

U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/sarantakes/stuff.html [very useful set of links to research, teaching, and grant resources pertaining to US foreign relations]

The National Security Archive: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ [vast collection of declassified documents on a range of subjects, many are available also via ILL on microfilm]

U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States (multiple volumes of declassified documents on many subjects), http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html

Declassified Documents Reference System (comprehensive, searchable database of declassified documents, available as an online database at FIU library).

U.S. Foreign Policy – Academic Info (list of links), http://www.academicinfo.net/polisciforpol.html.

Cold War International History Project (documents from abroad pertaining to the Cold War), http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home.

The Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/.

See also the searchable Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Rooms of government agencies, such as FBI, CIA, State Department, Defense Department, Department of Justice, and Department of Energy.

Select Journals:

American Diplomacy

Armed Forces and Society

Cold War History

Diplomatic History

Diplomacy and Statecraft

Foreign Affairs

Intelligence and National Security

International History Review

Journal of American History

Journal of Cold War Studies

Journal of Military History

Political Science Quarterly

Presidential Studies Quarterly

Rhetoric and Public Affairs

U.S. Foreign Policy

(For comprehensive list of relevant journals, see http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/sarantakes/stuff-journals.html. See also journals of regional or subject interest. Note that many of these journals are not indexed on JSTOR: you will have to browse stacks and search for articles of interest.)

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