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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, [...]
I’ll take up the point raised by Shane Maddock’s recent post on moving beyond the Cold War. I share his feeling that the focus on the conflict has imposed its own “interpretive framework” on scholarship in U.S. foreign relations and international history generally and that this scaffolding can limit our understanding of a slew of [...]
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 [...]