Diplomatic History

Happening next Monday! Register here: bit.ly/SHAFR-Archives

CFA: Peace in the Age of Forever Wars 🕊️

We invite submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium on all aspects of peace. More informatoon can be found at challengingwar.com/spring-2025/

The September Passport issue is available! Including video games, the US in the Middle East, the Cold War International History Project, French resistance fighter, and 7 Questions about the United Nations: www.shafr.org/passport-sep...

Thank you to all of our reviewers!

and Lisa Kirschenbaum @lakirsch.bsky.social review's Alexis Peri's Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Andrew Preston reviews Sam Lebovic's State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

W. Taylor Fain reviews Kuan-Jen Chen's Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Connie Shemo reviews Rumi Yasutake's The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940 doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Lillian Guerra reviews Mauricio Castro's @castrohistorian.bsky.social Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Jeremy Varon reviews Joseph Fronczak's Everything is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Leopoldo Nuti reviews Luke Griffith's Unraveling the Gray Area Problem: The United States and the INF Treaty doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Mark Edwards reviews Matthew Shannon's Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social reviews Lydia Walker's @lydiawalker.bsky.social States in Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Lauren Hirshberg reviews Juliet Nebolon's @julietneb.bsky.social Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai'i and the Making of US Empire doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Ryan M Touhey reviews Reed H. Chervin's The Cold War in the Himalayas: Multinational Perspectives on the Sino-Indian Border Conflict, 1950-1970 doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

We also have 12 new book reviews: Sarah Coleman reviews Carly Goodman's @carlygoodman.bsky.social Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

And Chris Suh's (@chrissuh.bsky.social) article "Diasporic Politics in the Age of Decolonization: Korean Independence and the US Military Occupation of Korea, 1945–1948" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Christian Ruth's article "Back to Basics: Neoliberal Development at USAID in the Cold War" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Toshihiro Higuchi's article "Just Another Ship? US Nuclear-Powered Warships and Secrecy in Japan, 1959–1972" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
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Sovereignty and Surveillance in Cold War India Paul McGarr opens his work with a reference from John le Carré’s Smiley’s People, recounting the brief meeting between George Smiley and his Soviet counter

Hugely grateful to @arjm5184.bsky.social for his very generous & insightful review of Spying in South Asia in @diplomatichistory.bsky.social. Andrew's meticulous assessment neatly captures the book's essence 🙏https://academic.oup.com/dh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/dh/dhaf052/8226034?searchresult=1

The lecture will be published in @diplomatichistory.bsky.social.

The whole DH editorial team will be at SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social please feel free to chat with one of us about your work and the submission process!

Thank you to all of our book reviewers!

Onward Christian Citizens: White Protestant Women in a New World Order In a world of simplistic narratives, Gale L. Kenny has written an ambitious study of how female ecumenical White Protestant missionary organizations sought

Cordelia Moyse reviews Gale L. Kenny's Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire. academic.oup.com/dh/article-a...

The Great (Soviet-)American Road Trip Salted butter and smooth roads. These were two of many wonders that Soviet humorists Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov encountered during their 1935 road trip acr

Alexis Peri reviews Lisa A. Kirschenbaum's (@lakirsch.bsky.social‬) Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip. academic.oup.com/dh/article-a...

Friends in a Warring World In 1947, the Norwegian Nobel Foundation awarded its annual Peace Prize to two Quaker relief organizations: the British-based Friends Service Council and th

Julia Irwin (@juliairwin.bsky.social‬) reviews the new English translation of Daniel Maul's (‪@ostrovdoktora.bsky.social‬) The Politics of Service: Quakers in the United States and International Humanitarian Aid, 1917–1945. academic.oup.com/dh/article-a...

So Many Enemies, So Little Time In his ambitious book, Osamah F. Khalil “traverses the contested terrains and intersecting trajectories of the [US] Wars on Crime, Drugs, and Terror” (3).

Michael Sherry reviews Osamah F. Khalil's A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden. academic.oup.com/dh/article-a...

On Faith and Foreign Relations In the spring of 1902, historian Henry William Rankin published a biographical sketch of his late uncle, Divie Bethune McCartee, in the New York Evangelist

Heather Curtis (‪@heatherdcurtis.bsky.social)‬ reviews Emily Conroy-Krutz' (‪@econroykrutz.bsky.social‬) Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations. academic.oup.com/dh/article-a...

Imperial Violence, Imperial Lies: How Colonial Archives Package History Violence. Destruction. Slaughter. Massacre. These are the realities of empire. Realities that Kim Wagner documents in Massacre in the Clouds: An American A

Victoria Reyes reviews Kim A. Wagner's (@kimatiwagner.bsky.social‬) Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History. academic.oup.com/dh/article-a...