SHAFR is saddened at the loss of noted scholars Amy Kaplan on July 30 aged 66 and Thomas Joseph McCormick Jr. on July 25 aged 87.

Amy Kaplan was the Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and past president of the American Studies Association.  Her works included the Cultures of United States Imperialism (1994) collection, co-edited with Donald J. Pease, "which marked a paradigm shift for the field of American Studies, forcing scholars to contend with the United States’s imperialist history."

The New York Public Library is launching a new program series from the Center for Research in the Humanities called Doc Chat. During each 30-minute episode, a NYPL curator or specialist and a scholar will highlight evocative digitized items from the Library's collections and discuss innovative ways of teaching with them. NYPL welcomes educators, researchers, students, and primary source lovers to join the Doc Chat conversation.

 

On July 29 at 3:30pm, NYPL’s Julie Golia and Colgate University Professor Dan Bouk will discuss a curious map and its unusual connection to the Red Scare of 1919-1920. More information and the registration link can be found here: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2020/07/29/doc-chat-episode-1-mapping-1920s-red-scare

The OAH offers the Richard W. Leopold Prize every two years to the author or editor of the best book on foreign policy, military affairs, historical activities of the federal government, documentary histories, or biography written by a U.S. government historian or federal contract historian.

Further information on the prize and how to apply can be found on the OAH website: https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/richard-w-leopold-prize/

The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers annual short-term research fellowships of $3000 each to doctoral candidates, college and university faculty at every rank, and independent scholars working in the field of American history. This year, applications to the program must be received by Friday, July 31, 2020. Applications may propose research at archives in the five boroughs of New York and surrounding areas, including the Rockefeller Archive Center. This year, proposals with a focus on the Cold War will be given greater consideration.

For details about the program, please visit https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-events/scholarly-fellowships. Application information can be found at https://mailchi.mp/gilderlehrman/applications-for-2020-gilder-lehrman-fellowships-are-now-open-222582.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact [email protected]

JFKI Job Listing

At its meeting on Thursday, the SHAFR Council unanimously affirmed the following statement of solidary:

"The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) affirms that Black Lives Matter and condemns state and non-state violence against racialized communities in the United States and abroad.  We stand in solidarity with those who have been fighting anti-Black racism and vow to continue working for the full inclusion and equality of all peoples in all institutions and communities to which we belong, including SHAFR. 

"Consistent with SHAFR's mission to promote 'the study, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge of American foreign relations,' we believe in identifying the inequities and imbalances of power and influence between and within states and highlighting the connections between racism, patriarchy, economic exploitation, and imperialism.  We hope you will join us in fostering research and dialogue including diverse constituencies, working towards meaningful change, justice, and healing."

New On-Line Global Research Tactics for the Twenty-First Century

Monday 22 June, 12 Noon to 14:00 (EDT) via Zoom

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the SHAFR 2020 Annual Meeting scheduled for June 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana was cancelled.  We have set up a virtual conference page that includes:

• The audio version of this year's SHAFR 2020 Presidential Address- "Inposts of Empire" by Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.  As per SHAFR's usual custom, it will later appear in print in Diplomatic History.
• The SHAFR 2020 Final Program
• Abstracts from those accepted participants and panels that wished to organize virtual events this week.
• Announcement of the SHAFR 2020 prize winners that would have ordinarily been awarded at the annual meeting.

All of this can be found on the SHAFR 2020 Virtual Conference site.

Colleagues from the Society for History of American Foriegn Relations,

Please find attached a letter to our researchers that I hope you will share with your members.  This letter has also been posted to our website and to my blog.

Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) Awards
Deadline- June 15, 2020

The CCWH offers six awards. For full descriptions and application procedures, see https://theccwh.org/ccwh-awards/.

The 2019 Report of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is now available on the SHAFR Research page.

Watch the SHAFR 2014 Plenary - "Fall of the Berlin Wall"

Watch the SHAFR 2014 plenary session, "The Fall of the Wall: A 25th Anniversary Reassessment," on the C-SPAN Video Library, as broadcast Sunday on C-SPAN3's American History TV.

Featured on the video are Richard Immerman (Temple University) as moderator with panelists Jeffrey A. Engel (Southern Methodist University), Melvyn P. Leffler (University of Virginia), Mary Sarotte (University of Southern California), and James G. Wilson (Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State). The full video on C-SPAN's video library includes a fully searchable transcript and closed captioning. Thanks to C-SPAN for filming and producing this highlight from our June conference in Lexington.