Two Centuries of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Documentary Record

Valone has selected 71 documents that have either defined America's place in the world or reflected a significant episode in the history of U.S. foreign affairs. Each selection is prefaced by brief introductory remarks, that place the document in context, and is followed by a short list of suggested readings for those interested in pursuing the topic further. Designed primarily to supplement a one-semester introductory level course covering U.S. diplomatic history from its origins to the present, this collection can, because of the large number of 20th century documents, also be used in a variety of upper-level undergraduate courses in U.S. history.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Treaty of Alliance with France George Washington's Neutrality Proclamation George Washington's Farewell Address Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Address The Louisiana Purchase James Madison's War Message to Congress The Monroe Doctrine Indian Removal The Democratic Party Platform of 1844 Manifest Destiny Abraham Lincoln's Blockade Proclamation Suspension of the Monroe Doctrine Reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine The Influence of Seapower on History McKinley's War Message to Congress The Teller Amendment and Cuban Resolutions McKinley Takes the Philippines The Platt Amendment The Open Door Notes The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Woodrow Wilson and Latin America Wilson Renounces Dollar Diplomacy Wilson and U.S. Neutrality Wilson's War Message The Lansing-Ishii Agreement The Fourteen Points The Covenant of the League of Nations Normalcy The Washington Conference Treaties The Kellogg-Briand Pact The Stimson Doctrine The Good Neighbor Policy The Neutrality Acts The Ludlow Amendment Roosevelt's "Quarantine" Speech Roosevelt and U.S. Neutrality Roosevelt's Fireside Chat on National Security The Lend-Lease Act The Atlantic Charter Roosevelt's Request for Declaration of War against Japan Declaration of Four Nations on General Security The Yalta Agreements The Potsdam Agreements The Long Telegram The Truman Doctrine The Marshall Plan The North Atlantic Treaty Organization The China White Paper NSC-68 The Korean War Eisenhower and Guatemala The Domino Theory The Eisenhower Doctrine The Bay of Pigs The Cuban Missile Crisis The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Clark Clifford and the Reappraisal of U.S. Policy towards the War in Vietnam Lyndon Johnson's Post-Tet Address to the Nation Linkage The Nixon Doctrine The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty Carter's Human Rights Foreign Policy The Panama Canal Treaty The Carter Doctrine Reagan and the Soviet Union Reagan and the Evil Empire The Reagan Doctrine The Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty The Shattering of the Eastern Bloc The New World Order The End of the Cold War Index

About the Author :
STEPHEN J. VALONE is Associate Professor of History at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. He is the author of A Policy Calculated to Benefit China: The United States and the China Arms Embargo, 1919-1929 (Greenwood, 1991).