YOU ARE HERE >
Main > Seminars
2009 Summer Seminar
"United
States Foreign Policy and International Relations"
For a terrific review of the summer seminar, see the
articles on our program by Dr. Lee Formwalt, Executive Director of
the Organization of American Historians, published in the
OAH
Newsletter and and article
by Dr. Allida Black of
George Washington University
Click Here. Directions to seminar facilities
are at the
bottom of this page.
The final week
of talks at Chautauqua Institution slated for Teaching American
History Educators:
Week Nine: June 30-July 4 "The
History of Liberty • Afternoon Theme: Religious Liberty and the
Faith of the Founders". Simply go to the main
gate, tell them you are a TAH participate and sign-in and they will give you
a day pass and a parking pass good till 5:00 PM. If you pay for
parking first, they cannot reimburse you. See below for
schedule.
Click Here for
Chautauqua TAH Weeks 2009
To review previous seminars click
below:
2009 Summer Seminar
Greater Southern Tier
July 6th-10th 2009
|
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
|
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
|
Opening on the Foundations
for Independence and the Early Republic |
Civil War through the Gilded
Age |
Expansionism: WWI to 1950 |
Cold War Through 1990 |
End of Cold
War through Present Day |
|
Dr. Alan Gibson University of
California at Chico |
Dr. Paul Finkelman Albany Law
School |
Dr. Andrew Rotter
Colgate University |
Dr. Robert K. Brigham Vassar
College |
Dr. Jeremi Suri
Univ. of Wisconsin at Ann
Arbor |
|
Lunch |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lecture
& Discussion on Curriculum Applications |
Lecture
& Discussion on Curriculum Applications |
Lecture
& Discussion on Curriculum Applications |
Lecture
& Discussion on Curriculum Applications |
Lecture
& Discussion on Curriculum Applications
|
|
Wings
of Eagles Discovery Center |
Wings
of Eagles Discovery Center |
Wings
of Eagles Discovery Center |
Wings
of Eagles Discovery Center |
Wings
of Eagles Discovery Center |
On Thursday the 9th
Peter D.
Feaver, Alexander F. Hexameter Professor at Duke University
will be joining Drs. Suri, Rotter and Brigham for a panel
discussion on Thursday the 9th on Foreign Policy.
Dr. Feaver
is a professor of
political science
at
Duke
University
and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies.
He recently returned from a sabbatical in the
Bush
administration,
as a special advisor for strategic planning and
institutional reform on the
National Security Council.
He also was one of the chief architects of the "Surge".
Feaver
earned his Ph.D. in Government from
Harvard University
and his undergraduate degree from
Lehigh University.
Feaver also served as Director for Defense Policy and Arms
Control at the
National Security Council
during the
Clinton administration.
He is also a
lieutenant commander
in the
U.S.
Naval Reserve.
Opening Day:
Dr.
Alan Gibson
of California State University at Chico
will begin the week
on Foreign Policy with a summary of the early republic in the
context of the Atlantic System. Professor Gibson has
taught at Chico State since 2001. His teaching and research
interests are in the field of political theory. He holds a PhD
from the University of Notre Dame.
I. The
Articles of Confederation
II. The Crisis of Republican Government
(Including a discussion of the
events-problems that led to the calling of
the
Constitutional Convention and the
question, Was the "Critical Period" really
critical?)
III.
The Convention (Delegates, Compromises,
Accomplishments - Failures)
IV.
Slavery and the Constitution
(Neo-Garrisonian and Neo-Lincolnian
Interpretations)
V.
The Federalist Papers
VI.
The Anti-federalists
Additional
Power Point Presentations from Dr. Gibson
|
 |
Day Two:
Dr. Paul Finkelman
of the Albany Law School will cover the Constitutional
issues from the Civil War through the Gilded Age.
Prior to accepting a position at Albany Law
School, Paul Finkelman was Chapman
Distinguished Professor of Law at the
University of Tulsa College of Law since
1999. He was previously the John F.
Seiberling Professor of Law at the
University of Akron Law School and has
taught at the Cleveland Marshall College of
Law, Hamline Law School, the University of
Miami, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Brooklyn
Law School, SUNY Binghamton, and the
University of Texas at Austin.
A specialist in American legal history, race
and the law, Finkelman is the author and
editor of numerous articles and books. He
was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at
Harvard Law School and received his Ph.D.
and M.A. from the University of Chicago. He
has published extensively and was the chief
expert witness in the Alabama Ten
Commandments monument case. His work on the
religion and legal history is cited in
briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court involving
this issue.
Readings:
Amendments 13, 14, 15
to the Constitution
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am13
Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address:
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres31.html
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address:
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
Emancipation Proclamation:
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
Gettysburg Address:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/gettyb.htm
|
 |
|
Day Three:
Dr. Andrew Rotter
Charles
A. Dana Professor of History at Colgate University will cover
the time period of expansionism from the turn of the 20th
Century through the end of World War II.
Degree
BA Cornell University 1975; MA, PhD Stanford University 1976,
1981
Teaching Experience
St. Mary's College (CA); Vanderbilt University
Specialties
U.S. diplomatic history, recent U.S. history, the Vietnam War
Interests
Vietnam War; U.S.-India relations (1947-64)
Selected Publications
Comrades at Odds: Culture and Indo-U.S. Relations, 1947-1964,
(Cornell University Press, 2000); The Path to Vietnam
(Cornell University Press, 1987); Light at the End of the
Tunnel, 2nd ed. (Scholarly Resources Press, 1999); articles,
reviews in American Historical Review, Journal of American
History, Diplomatic History, California History, The
International History Review, Pacific Historical Review, Reviews
in American History and elsewhere
Distinctions
Fellow, Gandhi Peace Foundation; Harry S Truman Library
Institute grant; American Council of Learned Societies Senior
Fellowship
|
 |
Day Four:
Robert K. Brigham
Professor of
History on the Shirley Ecker Boskey Chair of
International Relationsof Vassar College
will cover the Cold War through 1990.
. He teaches courses on the history of
American foreign relations, modern America,
and international history.
Along with several teaching awards, Brigham
has also earned fellowships from the
Rockefeller Foundation, the Mellon
Foundation, the National Endowment for
Humanities, the Smith Richardson Foundation,
the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, the
Cooper Foundation, the Gilman Foundation,
and the Social Sciences Committee in Hanoi,
Vietnam. In addition, Brigham has been
Albert Shaw Endowed Lecturer at Johns
Hopkins University, Mellon Senior Visiting
Scholar at Cambridge University (Clare
College), visiting professor of
international relations at the Watson
Institute for International Studies at Brown
University, and Mary Ball Washington
Professor of American History (Fulbright) at
University College Dublin.
Brigham is author of numerous books and
essays on American foreign relations and
politics, including Guerrilla Diplomacy:
The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Vietnam
War (Cornell, 1998); Argument
Without End: In Search of Answers to the
Vietnam Tragedy (Public Affairs, 1999)
written with Robert S. McNamara and James G.
Blight; ARVN: Life and Death in the
South Vietnamese Army (Kansas, 2006);
Is Iraq Another Vietnam? (Public
Affairs, 2006); Iraq, Vietnam, and the
Limits of American Power (Public
Affairs, 2008); The Global Ho Chi Minh
(Potomac, 2009); and The Wars for
Vietnam, written with Mark P. Bradley
and Lien-Hang Nguyen (Wiley-Blackwell,
forthcoming). Brigham is currently working
on a history of nation building in South
Vietnam (Cambridge), a textbook on America's
wars in Iraq, and a book about the future of
U.S. foreign policy.
|
 |
|
Day Five:
Dr
Jeremi Suri, who will be guest host for days Three
through Five will cover the end of the Cold War through the
present day.
I define
"international history" broadly. My research examines the
interactions between states, peoples, and cultures --
especially in the twentieth century. I am interested in the
decisions of leaders and institutions, as well as the
influence of ideas and social movements. Through
multiarchival research I hope to "globalize" our
understanding of relations among societies and America's
often contested place in the world. My teaching applies this
international approach to the history of American foreign
relations since the eighteenth century (History 433 and
434), the global upheavals of the 1960s (History 600), great
power relations since 1815 (History 901), the global history
of the Cold War (History 753), and the history of
imperialism (History 703). |
 |
Directions
Wings of Eagles Discover
Center
|