1. Age of neutrality and expansion, 1775-1860. Federalists versus Republicans: getting right with the farewell address -- Ante-bellum historians and American expansion -- 2. Age of manly neutrality and the bloody shirt, 1860-1898. A manly neutrality -- The bloody shirt and manifest destiny -- 3. Age of imperialism, 1898-1919. Spanish-American war -- Imperialism and the historical climate of opinion -- Impact of the age of imperialism on the historiography of early American diplomacy -- 4. Aftermath of the Great War, 1919-1939. Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations -- America's entry into World War I -- World War I and the historiography of American neutrality -- World War I and the historiography of nineteenth-century American expansionism -- World War I and the historiography of America's imperial age -- 5. Age of Munich, 1939-1965. World War II and the creation of the Munich analogy -- Cold war -- Cold war dissenters: realists, right-wingers and the new revisionists -- Age of Munich and the historiography of American interventionism -- Age of Munich and the historiography of early American diplomacy -- 6. Age of Vietnam, 1965-? War in Vietnam -- Cold war historiography in the age of Vietnam -- Impact of Vietnam on the historiography of early American diplomacy -- Impact of Vietnam on the historiography of later American diplomacy.
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