Building Commercial Relations with Russia When Francis Dana, America’s first diplomat assigned to Russia, arrived in St. Petersburg, he wrote…
America’s first effort at formally initiating diplomatic relations with Tsarist Russia began during the War for Independence from Great Britain.…
St. Petersburg During the Russian Civil War The calamities of the First World War with its massive loss of Russian…
From all indications, the trip to the USSR was going to be a great experience. Our delegation of fourteen faculty…
I recently discovered a new author – that is, an author who is new to me, but who has been…
At the peak of his career, having published three powerful novels in the 1930s – especially one of his best-known…
Professor David S. Foglesong from Rutgers University has written a fascinating book, The American Mission and the “Evil Empire”: The…
Andrew Nagorski’s book, The Greatest Battle, is a fascinating study of how an epic World War Two struggle can get…
It is not very often that a historian writes a book to counter the “myths” created by a novelist. Dominic…
I enjoy reading the memoirs and biographies of government leaders, especially of American Presidents and Secretaries of State. With my…