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		<title>Rising Isolationism, A Renewed Danger?</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/11/15/rising-isolationism-a-renewed-danger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher McKnight Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an honor to be kicking off the blog for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for the fall of 2011. I thank Andrew Johns, Brian Etheridge, and the officers of SHAFR for the invitation, and I look forward to an excellent year of diverse debates and dynamic discussions.
For this column, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Civil War and American Foreign Relations</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/04/12/the-civil-war-and-american-foreign-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Sexton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civil War:  1861-1865]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no longer necessary to begin a discussion of Civil War diplomacy with a comment about its relative neglect in the historiography. Recent years have seen the publication of numerous monographs and articles on various aspects of the topic. The overseas dimensions of the conflict also have been accorded much attention in recent general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberating the Civil War from American Exceptionalism</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/04/12/liberating-the-civil-war-from-american-exceptionalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In respect to the international dimensions and ramifications of the Civil War, the subject needs to be liberated from the intellectual strait-jacket of American exceptionalism. Instead, it needs to be recognized that this conflict was one of the numerous wars of independence, secession, and national unification which took place from the 1840s to the 1870s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legacies and Implications of the Civil War for American Foreign Relations</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/04/12/3137/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Myers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reconstruction:  1865-1877]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Civil War had long and short-term implications and legacies for American foreign relations. It brought cooperative British-American relations despite wartime tensions. Britain and the United States settled differences soon after the war ended. During the 1871-1914 period, Americans led the world with the British in using international arbitrations to settle disputes. The Union had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil War Foreign Policy: Legacies Known and Legacies to Consider</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/04/11/civil-war-foreign-policy-legacies-known-and-legacies-to-consider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Rakestraw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent seminar student—obviously caught up in the approach of the Civil War sesquicentennial and the anticipated flurry of reeanctments certain to commemorate every event from Fort Sumter to the tardy surrender of the CSS Shenandoah&#8211;asked if diplomatic historians ever staged reeanactments.  The other students kindly controlled their temptation to set the exciting scene of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pernicious Effects of the All-Volunteer Military</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/08/pernicious-effects-of-the-all-volunteer-military/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/08/pernicious-effects-of-the-all-volunteer-military/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Foster</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In each class I teach, I ask students to fill out an index card with the usual demographic information, but also to put there anything they think could affect their performance in class.  Usually they write about learning disabilities, commuting, family responsibilities, and athletic teams they are on.  But since 2003, an increasing number write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about Remembering</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/22/thinking-about-remembering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Wood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and even though I have not lived there for many years, I still visit regularly. I often think that my decision to become a historian stems in part from the stories of my family history told to me by grandparents and other relatives. I learned from my grandmother, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 11/17/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/17/weekly-digest-111709/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/17/weekly-digest-111709/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States would veto a Palestinian declaration of statehood in the United Nations Security Council, U.S. senators visiting Israel said Monday. [more]
President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao spoke on Tuesday of shared responsibilities and economic opportunities.[more]
Chinese nuclear forces are pragmatically arrayed in a defensive posture &#8212; they have the numbers and the technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THERE IS A STONE IN MY HEART</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/04/02/there-is-a-stone-in-my-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/04/02/there-is-a-stone-in-my-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>george white, jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These words are difficult to write. Fifty years ago, the people of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo drifted in a purgatory between independence and continued Belgian control. It seems like only yesterday that nationalist leaders like Patrice Lumumba climbed a mountain of severed hands to point their people toward a new future. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly digest &#8212; 1/29/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/29/weekly-digest-12909/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/29/weekly-digest-12909/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Regan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America’s once strong alliance with Germany has soured. The new administration should rekindle this relationship, which is essential to turning the global economy around. [more]
Looking back on the two decades since the tumbling of the Berlin Wall, what have we learned? Can reflection prepare us for the future? A brief review will help clarify our [...]]]></description>
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