DIPLOMATIC HISTORY
Federal
Robert L. Beisner. From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865–1900.
Drew R. McCoy. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America.
Thomas J. McCormick. China Market: America’s Quest for Informal Empire, 1893–
1901.
Walter LaFeber. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–
1898.
Bradford Perkins. The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776–1865.
Empire: McKinley, TR
Robert E. Hannigan. The New World Power.
Walter LaFeber. The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913.
Latin America, Caribbean
Kristin L. Hoganson. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked
the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
Lester D. Langley and Thomas Schoonover. The Banana Men.
Louis A. Pérez. Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy.
Mary A. Renda. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism.
Emily S. Rosenberg. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of
Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930.
Cyrus Veeser. A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America’s Rise to
Global Power.
World War I: Wilson
Frederick S. Calhoun. Power and Principle: Armed Intervention in Wilsonian Foreign
Policy.
Meirion and Susie Harries. The Last Days of Innocence: America at War.
N. Gordon Levin. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America’s Response to War and
Revolution.
John A. Thompson. Reformers and War: American Progressive Publicists and the First
World War.
1930s, World War II: FDR
Steven Casey. Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and
the War Against Nazi Germany.
Warren I. Cohen. Empire Without Tears: America’s Foreign Relations, 1921–1933.
Robert Dallek. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy.
Robert A. Divine. The Illusion of Neutrality.
Justus D. Doenecke and John E. Wilz. From Isolation to War.
Justus D. Doenecke. Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention.
John W. Dower. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War.
Barbara Reardon Farnham. Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political
Decision-Making.
Irwin F. Gellman. Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles.
Waldo Heinrichs. Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into
World War II.
John Lamberton Harper. American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F.
Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson.
Akira Iriye. The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific.
Akira Iriye. The Globalizing of America.
Warren F. Kimball. Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War.
Warren F. Kimball. The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman.
David Reynolds. From Munich to Pearl Harbor.
William R. Scott. The Son’s of Sheba’s Race: African-Americans and the Italo-Ethiopian
War.
Michael S. Sherry. The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon.
Anders Stephanson. Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy.
Spain
Willard L. Beaulac. Franco: Silent Ally in World War II.
Douglas Little. Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain, and the Origins
of the Spanish Civil War.
F. Jay Taylor. The United States and the Spanish Civil War.
Richard P. Traina. American Diplomacy and the Spanish Civil War.
Cold War: Truman
Warren I. Cohen. America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945–1991.
Arnold A. Offner. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953.
John Lewis Gaddis. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History.
Michael J. Hogan. A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National
Security State, 1945–1954.
David Mayers. The Ambassadors and America’s Soviet Policy.
Stephen W. Twing. Myths, Models, and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Cultural Shaping of
Three Cold Warriors.
Middle East
Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb. War in the Gulf, 1990–91: The Iraq-Kuwait
Conflict and its Implications.
Douglas Little. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since
1945.
Melani McAlister. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle
East, 1945–2000.
Asia
T. Christopher Jespersen. American Images of China, 1931–1949.
Christina Klein. Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–
1961.
Andrew J. Rotter. Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947–1964.
William Stueck. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History.
Vietnam
Philip E. Catton. Diem’s Final Failure: Prelude to America’s War in Vietnam.
Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach. America, the Vietnam
War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives.
James T. Fisher. Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961.
Gunter Lewy. America in Vietnam.
Tai Sung An. The Vietnam War.
1980s: Reagan
Andrew J. Bacevich. American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S.
Diplomacy.
Warren I. Cohen. The Asian American Century.
Frances Fitzgerald. Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the
Cold War.
Thomas J. McCormick. America’s Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the
Cold War and After.
Ideology, Theory
H.W. Brands. What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign
Policy.
Michael J. Hogan & Thomas G. Paterson. Explaining the History of American Foreign
Relations.
Michael H. Hunt. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Emily S. Rosenberg. Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890–1945.
Robert Strausz-Hupé. Democracy and American Foreign Policy: Reflections on the
Legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville.
Political Science, Public Opinion
David Campbell. Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of
Identity.
Robert C. Hilderbrand. Power and the People.
Ralph B. Levering. American Opinion and the Russian Alliance.
Robert J. Myers. U. S. Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: The Relevance of Realism.
Miroslav Nincic. Democracy and Foreign Policy: The Fallacy of Political Realism.
Richard Sobel. The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam:
Constraining the Colossus.