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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, [...]
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 [...]
Politicians repeatedly refer to the United States as a “peace-loving nation,” but evidence to the contrary abounds. Americans celebrate and embrace warriors and largely express apathy or disdain for those that work for peace. The phrase war hero is commonplace, but we rarely speak of peace heroes. The nation’s very birth came out of a [...]