Chapter 2: The Expansion of U.S. Power

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Annotated Internet References

This site, containing a chronology of U.S. historical documents (www.law.ou.edu/hist), is maintained and updated by the University of Oklahoma College of Law. The college provides links to the full text and printable versions of U.S. historical documents from the pre-colonial era through the twenty-first century, such as speeches, charters, major laws, and agreements.

The CNN Archives (www.cnn.com/SPECIALS) provide in-depth articles, reports, maps, and interviews regarding U.S. current events and foreign relations from 1995 to 2004. “Special Reports,” such as “Kosovo Conflict” and “Yugoslavia in Transition,” are archived by year and date. Interactive media features include moving maps, live coverage of the events, and photographs. In addition, the site has a detailed series dedicated to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union along with relations of other countries (www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war).

In conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, the Cold War Museum (www.coldwar.org) focuses on the half-century struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union from early developments in the 1940s to the end of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Links to specific texts, chronologies, videos, congressional testimony, and relevant books and Web sites for specific aspects of the Cold War are included. Presidential doctrines, strategies, and Cold War military conflicts are a focus of this site.

The Government Printing Office’s Core Documents of U.S. Democracy site (www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html) provides full-text links to documents considered most relevant to educating citizens on U.S. democracy. Categories range from early historical addresses to bills and laws from all congressional sessions. In addition to these documents, this site provides access to demographic and economic indicators and statistics relevant to the United States.

Developed and maintained by the University of Houston, the Digital History project (www.digitalhistory.uh.edu) utilizes Web technology to present chronologies, images, and sound bites from U.S. history. A full U.S. history and development textbook is included on the site, as well as suggested readings on specific time periods relevant to U.S. foreign relations, such as colonial expansion, military history, and relations with Europe.

History Matters (http://historymatters.gmu.edu) is developed and maintained by George Mason University. This site provides links and sources to help students and researchers understand crucial events of U.S. history. The site also provides advice and methods for analyzing historical works.

The History News Network (http://hnn.us) is a nonprofit and independent group of historians and journalists who post articles and editorial writings regarding U.S. foreign relations. Critical reactions to historical events, quotes, polls, and multimedia links for understanding history are included on this site.

The Library of Congress (http://lcweb.loc.gov) provides up-to-date access to legislation, historical documents, memorials, maps, and virtual and digital collections of historic time periods. For researchers with a specific focus, the library provides bibliographic and citation lists for topics such as the Cuban missile crisis or the war on terrorism. The library also has an interactive feature for communicating with a researcher and librarian for in-depth questioning and help on research activities.

The Multi-National Force--Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom (www.mnf-iraq.com) is the official website for the war in Iraq. Links include recent news, conflict history, leadership, strategy, and troop stories. This site also features the ability to communicate with troops.

PBS (www.pbs.org) provides detailed access to historical events and biographies of leaders relevant to U.S. foreign relations. In addition to original Web text, PBS incorporates its television programs by posting interviews and full text of their programs (with sound bites) on this site. Photos, maps, chronologies, and links to relevant sources are part of each series. American Experience, Frontline, and People’s Century are the three primary programs relevant to U.S. foreign relations. Frontline features in-depth coverage of the Bush Doctrine and the ongoing war on terrorism.

The Smithsonian Institution (www.si.edu) is committed to helping researchers and citizens understand American identity, history, and culture. Exhibitions such as “American Expansion” as well as bibliographies of key leaders are useful for those wishing to understand the development of American history and politics.

Additional Links of Interest

The American Historical Review (www.indiana.edu/~ahr/index.html)

American Quarterly (www.press.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly)

Diplomatic History (www.colorado.edu/history/diplomatic/)

The Historical Journal (http://titles.cambridge.org/journals/)

History and Theory (www.historyandtheory.org/)

The Journal of American History (www.indiana.edu/~jah/)

Journal of Cold War Studies (www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/journal.htm)

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=48)

Journal of International Affairs (www.jia.sipa.columbia.edu/)

The Journal of Military History (www.smh-hq.org/jmh/)

Suggested Readings Cited in Chapter 2

Ambrose, Stephen E. 1988. Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938. 5th rev. ed. New York: Penguin Books.

Fukuyama, Francis. 1989. “The End of History?” National Interest 16 (Summer): 3–18.

George, Alexander L., and Juliette L. George. 1964. Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study. New York: Dover Publishers. (I CAN’T FIND STEVE’S 1956 SITE FOR THIS)

Hook, Steven W., and John Spanier. 2007. American Foreign Policy Since World War II, 17th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

Kattenburg, Paul M. 1980. The Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy, 1945–1975. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books.

Kennan, George F. 1947. “The Sources of Soviet Conduct.” Foreign Affairs 25 (July): 566–582.

LaFeber, Walter. 2004. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–2002. 9th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Lake, Anthony. 1993. “From Containment to Enlargement.” U.S. Department of State Dispatch 4 (39): 658–665.

McNamara, Robert S. 1995. In Retrospect: The Tragedies and Lessons of Vietnam. New York: Times Books.

Paterson, Thomas G., J. Garry Clifford, and Kenneth J. Hagan. 1995. American Foreign Relations: A History Since 1895. 4th ed. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath.

Russett, Bruce. 1993. Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post–Cold War World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Yergin, Daniel. 1977. Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War. New York: Penguin.

Suggested Readings Following the Themes of Chapter 2

Bender, Thomas, ed. 2002. Rethinking American History in a Global Age. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Carothers, Thomas. 1999. Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Fraser, T. G., and Donette Murray. 2002. America and the World Since 1945. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Haas, Richard. 1997. The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States after the Cold War. New York: Council on Foreign Relations.

Herrmann, Richard K., and Richard N. Lebow, eds. 2004. Ending the Cold War: Interpretations, Causation, and the Study of International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hietala, Thomas R. 2003. Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Hogan, Michael J., ed. 1999. The Ambiguous Legacy: U.S. Foreign Relations in the “American Century.” New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kissinger, Henry. 1994. Diplomacy. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Rhodes, Benjamin D. 2001. United States Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period, 1918–1941: The Golden Age of American Diplomatic and Military Complacency. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Rubin, Barry. 1985. Secrets of State: The State Department and the Struggle over U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press.