How did human rights activists make this topic a key element of both late Cold War diplomacy and of détente?
SHAFR member Sarah Snyder discusses this issue in a 2011 panel discussion held at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Travel Funding Opportunities
SHAFR has two travel funding grant programs for the 2018 conference, the Divine Graduate Student Travel Grants and the SHAFR Global Scholars and Diversity Grants. The deadline for both is December 1, 2017. Applicants who meet the criteria for both grants are welcome to apply for both.
Robert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grants
On 6 August 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the first nuclear weapon used in warfare over Hiroshima, Japan. The historical debate over the reasons and ethical justifications for the bombing continues to this day. Today the SHAFR website looks at three aspects of this very large and complex topic--early 1946 coverage of the bombing, Japanese reactions to nuclear weapons through the prism of the 1954 movie Godilla, and the state, in 2014, of scholarly work on the role that nuclear weapons have played in international politics since Hiroshima.
Today, 7 August 2014, marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Passed by Congress in response to a series of events known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, this joint resolution would serve as the legal basis for the US war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Watch the SHAFR 2014 plenary session, "The Fall of the Wall: A 25th Anniversary Reassessment," on the C-SPAN Video Library, as broadcast Sunday on C-SPAN3's American History TV.
Did you know that Advance Access to forthcoming Diplomatic History articles is one of your SHAFR membership benefits? Advance Access articles are papers that have been copyedited and typeset but not yet paginated for inclusion in an issue. These include
"If you teach a survey course on the history of American foreign relations, chances are that you don’t spend very much time on the Austria-Hungarian Empire, or “the Habsburgs,” as Nicole Phelps refers to that multinational empire in her remarkable new book," notes Thomas Schwartz, adding that "As Rodney Dangerfield may have put it, the Habsburgs get no respect. Phelps is out to change that perception."
