Diplomatic History Research Seminar
SELECT RESOURCES
Recommended References: Textbooks on US Foreign Relations
and Historiography:
Jerald A. Combs, The History of American Foreign Policy, 2nd ed. (McGraw Hill, 1997). [includes lengthy historiographical discussion]
Michael J. Hogan, ed.
Michael J. Hogan, ed. Paths
to Power: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 (
Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1991). [useful, and differs substantially from 2nd 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
Walter LaFeber, The
Akira Iriye, The
Warren I. Cohen, The
Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, and Kenneth J. Hagan, American Foreign Relations: A History, 5th ed., 2 vols. (Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
Walter LaFeber, The American Age:
Select Web Resources:
The National Security Archive: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ [vast collection of declassified
documents on a range of subjects, many are available also via
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).
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
(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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