I am pleased to announce that, in January 2020, my first article-length work on the US Consular Service was published in the volume Crossing Empires by Duke University Press. For more information and a pre-print, please visit the new “My Publications” page on this site.
My consular project has been somewhat on the back burner in the last couple of years as I have worked on two other significant projects.
One project is my lengthy (like, significantly longer than my first book!) annotated bibliography on “Expansion and Diplomacy after the Civil War, 1865-1914” that appears as part of The SHAFR Guide Online. Visit Brill for more information about the latest edition of this important US diplomatic history reference work. The next update is due out in 2021.
The other project is a US diplomatic history textbook for undergraduates titled Americans and International Affairs to 1921. It is due out with Cognella in time for Fall 2021 teaching–and perhaps for Spring 2020, if things move smoothly now that the manuscript is in press. At some point, someone else will be writing a second volume, but interested instructors might pair it with one of the existing textbooks focused on the post-1945 period. Fans of Walter LaFeber’s The American Age, which had its most recent edition in 1994 but is still in widespread use, should find much to like in my textbook.