America and the World: A Diplomatic History

Achieving Independence

Confederation and the Constitution

The Great Debate — Jefferson Versus Hamilton

From the Farewell Address to the Quasi War

Jefferson and the "Empire of Liberty"

The "Second War for Independence"

John Quincy Adams & American Continentalism

"Manifest Destiny" and War With Mexico

Causes and Diplomacy of the Civil War

The "New Empire" of Overseas Imperialism

Informal Empire — Roosevelt to Wilson

"The War to End All Wars"

The Peace Treaty and Wilson's Heritage

Interwar Isolationism and Internationalism

U.S. Entry Into World War II

World War II Diplomacy and the FDR Legacy

Origins of the Cold War

Cold War Turns Hot — Asia and the Korean War

Eisenhower and the Global Cold War

Kennedy and the Ultimate Cold War Crisis

Vietnam and the War at Home

The Nixon-Kissinger "Grand Design"

Ideology Anew and the End of the Cold War

The United States and the World Since 1991