HIS 460: Internationalizing U.S. History

"This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading historians. Some of the essays offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field of foreign/international relations history. Others survey the literature on US relations with particular regions of the world or on the foreign policies of presidential administrations. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the historical literature on US foreign policy that highlights recent developments in the field" (book jacket).

This 4-volume set "offers a transformative account of American engagement in the world from 1500 to the present. Representing new scholarship informed by the transnational turn in the writing of US history and American foreign relations, the four-volume reference work gives sustained attention to key moments in US diplomacy, from the Revolutionary War and the Monroe Doctrine to the US rise as a world power in World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. The volumes also cast a more inclusive scholarly net to include transnational histories of Native America, the Atlantic world, slavery, political economy, borderlands, empire, the family, gender and sexuality, race, technology, and the environment" (book jacket).

Brief chapters offer historiographical essays. This book will connect you with important historians and high-impact secondary histories (that you can cite). A great place to begin your history of American foreign relations research!

Great starting point for any student researching the history of U.S.-Soviet foreign relations.