Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Expanded Syallbi & Assignments Initiative

The SHAFR Teaching Committee is updating and expanding its online collection of syllabi to include assignments. At present, there are nearly 50 syllabi in the collection. With the addition of assignments, and the updating of some syllabi, the collection will be an even stronger resource for faculty, providing a place to share the intellectual structure of our courses and our reading lists, plus ideas for skills instruction and classroom management techniques.

All contributions are welcome, from instructions for brief in-class exercises to major research projects. We are also continuing to accept syllabi for the collection, though you can submit an assignment without sending your whole syllabus. Please include information that will help readers understand the institutional context of the course and/or the assignment, including the number of students enrolled, the level (intermediate undergraduate, graduate, etc.), and the frequency and duration of class meetings.

Please send submissions as .docx, .doc, or .pdf, to Nicole Phelps at nphelps@uvm.edu.

The updated Syllabi & Assignments Initiative will be online soon. SHAFR’s original collection of syllabi are posted below.

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, “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)
• Towson University, “U.S. and Vietnam” (Elizabeth Gray)

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)