Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

This page is designed as a teaching resource for SHAFR’s membership and friends. It contains a respository of syllabi submitted by SHAFR members from their own courses which may be used as a reference by those preparing to teach foreign relations history. The syllabi below are organized by graduate and undergraduate courses, and then subdivided by the type of course (e.g. chronological, thematic). Please consider contributing your syllabi to add to those listed below. This project will provide a useful resource only if members of SHAFR are willing to share their syllabi with the broader community. To submit a syllabus, email it as an attachment to webmaster@shafr.org, or mail a paper copy to:
SHAFR Business Office
106 Dulles Hall
230 W. 17th Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210

Undergraduate Courses

Colonial Period to the Present

• University of Texas at Dallas, “HST 2301″ (Stephen Rabe)
• Shippensburg University, “American Diplomatic History” (Robert Shaffer)
• Chapman University, “American Diplomatic History and Foreign Policy” (Leo
  Lovelace)
• United States Naval Academy, “America in World Affairs” (Richard H. Werking)
• University of Colorado at Boulder, “U.S. Diplomatic History to 1941″ (Thomas
  Zeiler)
• Weber State University “American Diplomatic History” (William Thomas Allison)
• University of Cincinnati, “U.S. in the World I” (John McNay)
• United States Air Force Academy “The History of U.S. Foreign Policy” (Grant
  T. Weller)
• West Chester University “Diplomatic History of the United States (Robert J. Kodosky)

Independence and 19th Century

• Ohio State University, “United States Diplomacy from Independence to 1920″ (Peter
  Hahn)
• University of Vermont, “History of U.S. Foreign Relations to 1914″ (Mark
  Stoler)
• University of Minnesota, “Americans and International Affairs to 1917″ (Nicole
  Phelps)
• University of Cincinnati, “U.S. in the World II” (John McNay)
• Wright State University, “United States Foreign Relations to 1914″ (Jonathan
  Reed Winkler)
• Towson University, “U.S. Foreign Policy until 1900″ (Elizabeth Gray)

20th Century

• Ohio State University, “United States Diplomacy since 1920″ (Peter Hahn)
• University of Texas at Dallas, “HST 3369″ (Stephen Rabe)
• University of Texas at Dallas, “HST 3379″ (Stephen Rabe)
• University of Vermont, “History of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1914″ (Mark
  Stoler)
• University of Florida, “History of American Foreign Relations, since 1914″ (Robert
  McMahon)
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “The U.S. and the World since
  1900″ (Brad Simpson)
• Ohio State University, Newark, “American Diplomatic History since 1920″ (Mitch
  Lerner)
• University of Minnesota, “American Foreign Relations since 1914″ (Nicole
  Phelps)
• Trinity University, “U.S. Diplomatic History” (Donald N. Clark)
• University of Cincinnati, “U.S. in the World III” (John McNay)
• Brock University, “U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945″ (Tami Friedman)
• College of William and Mary, “U.S.-Foreign Relations, 1900-present” (Hiroshi Kitamura)
• Towson University, “U.S. and Vietnam” (Elizabeth Gray)
• Towson University, “20th-Century U.S. Foreign Policy” (Elizabeth Gray)

Cold War

• United States Naval Academy, “The Early Cold War: The Truman Administration,
  1945-1953″ (R.H. Werking)
• University of Vermont, “Seminar: U.S.-British-Soviet Relations from World
  War II to Cold War, 1940-1950″ (Mark Stoler)
• University of Florida, “The Cold War” (Robert McMahon)
• U.S. Coast Guard Academy, “America in the Nuclear Age” (Gary Donato)
• Brock University, “The Cold War” (Tami Friedman)

Vietnam

• University of Florida, “America in Vietnam” (Robert McMahon)
• West Chester University, “The Vietnam Wars” (Robert J. Kodosky)
• Reed College, “The Vietnam War” (Edward Segel)

Third World

• University of Georgia, “Problems in American Foreign Policy: The Third
  World” (Larry Grubbs)
• Texas A&M University, “Inter-American Relations” (Andy Kirkendall)
• University of Evansville, “The United States and the Middle East” (Daniel
  Byrne)
• University of Notre Dame, “Decolonization and the United States” (Daniel
  Byrne)

Other Thematic Courses

• University of Toronto, “Gender and International Relations” (Carol Chin)
• College of William and Mary, “The Nuclear World” (Hiroshi Kitamura)

Graduate Courses: Reading Seminars

20th Century

• Ohio State University, “Studies in U.S. Diplomatic History, 1914 to the
  Present” (Peter Hahn)
• University of Texas at Dallas, “HST 6325″ (Stephen Rabe)
• Ohio State University, Newark, “The Cold War” (Mitch Lerner)

Vietnam

• University of Texas at Dallas, “HST 7355″ (Stephen Rabe)

Research Seminars

• Ohio State University, “Seminar in U.S. Diplomatic History” (Peter Hahn)
• University of Colorado, “American Empire” (Thomas Zeiler)

2008 SHAFR Summer Institute at Ohio State University

Note: The following three syllabi were prepared by participants of the
2008 SHAFR Summer Institute at Ohio State University. By design, they are concise
outlines of content and readings only and they are intended to provide basic
frameworks for adoption at colleges and universities.

• “U.S.-Iraq” (Jeffry Engel, Qiang Zhai, Thomas Zoumaras, Matt Jacobs)
• “U.S.-Iraq” (Tom Gaskin, Fabian Hilfrich, Michaela Hoenicke Moore, Sandra
  Scanlon)
• “U.S.-Iraq” (Sayuri Shimizu, Molly Wood, Chris Jespersen, Andrew Johns)