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General

David Gray Adler and Larry N. George, editors, The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy
Christian G. Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966
Robert Dallek, The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs
Robert A. Divine, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Michael Glennon, Constitutional Diplomacy
Colin S. Gray, Weapons Don't Make War: Policy, Strategy, and Military Technology
Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, eds., Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
Fred Charles Ikle, Every War Must End
Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Patterson, Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations
Klaus Knorr, editor, Historical Dimensions of National Security Problems
David A. Lake, Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century
Wm. Roger Louis, Adventures with Britannia Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain
-----, More Adventures with Britannia Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain
Robert McElroy, Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs
Maurice Pearton, Diplomacy, War and Technology Since 1830
Michael Schaller, The United States and China in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition
Robert Schulzinger, U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900, Fourth Edition
Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente
Brian Smith, More Than Altruism: The Politics of Private Foreign Aid
Tony Smith, America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century
Monteagle Stearns, Talking to Strangers: Improving American Diplomacy at Home and Abroad
Fareed Zakaria, From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Jules Benjamin, The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution: An Empire of Liberty in an Age of National Liberation
Graham A. Cosmas, An Army for Empire: The United States Army in the Spanish-American War
F. Gilbert, To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy
Robert W. Johannsen, To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination
Howard Jones, Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr., and Gene A. Smith, Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821
David M. Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment: American Economic Expansion in the Hemisphere, 1865-1900
Greg Russell, John Quincy Adams and the Public Virtues of Diplomacy
Norman E. Saul, Concord and Conflict: The United States and Russia, 1867-1914
-----, Distant Friends: The United States and Russia, 1763-1867

World War I

Victor M. Fic, The Collapse of American Policy in Russia and Siberia, 1918
Lloyd C. Gardner, Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution,1913-1923
George F. Kennan, Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. Two Volume Set
David Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society
N. Gordon Levin, Jr., Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution
J.W Schulte Nordholt, Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace
Norman E. Saul, War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914­1921
Betty Miller Unterberger, The United States, Revolutionary Russia, and the Rise of Czechoslovakia
William C. Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge & the Search for an American Foreign Policy

Interwar Diplomacy

G.A. Craig and F. Gilbert, The Diplomats, 1919-1939
Beth Simmons, Who Adjusts?: Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy during the Interwar Years

World War II

David Alvarez, Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930­1945
J. Garry Clifford and Samuel R. Spencer, Jr., The First Peacetime Draft
Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
Barbara Rearden Farnham, Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making
Waldo H. Heinrichs, Jr., American Ambassador: Joseph C. Grew and the Development of the
United States Diplomatic Tradition
-----, Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II
David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Warren Kimball, ed., Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence
-----, The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman
Jonathon Marshall, To Have and Have Not Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War
James W. Morley, editor, Japan´s Road to the Pacific War: The Final Confrontation Japan´s Negotiations With the United States, 1941
Amos Perlmutter, FDR & Stalin: A Not So Grand Alliance, 1943-1945
Bradley F. Smith, Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941­1945

Cold War Diplomacy

Michael Barnhart, editor, Congress and United States Foreign Policy: Controlling the Use of Force in the Nuclear Age
Robert R. Bowie and Richard H. Immerman, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy (1 of 2)
Robert R. Bowie and Richard H. Immerman, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy (2 of 2)
H. W. Brands, The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War
-----, Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918-1961
Robert A. Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War
-----, The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower's Response to the Soviet Satellite
Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1945-1948
Robert Ferrell, Harry S. Truman: A Life
Richard M. Fried, The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America
John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War
-----, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security
-----, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
Alonzo Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman
Fraser J. Harbutt, The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold
War
Elizabeth W. Hazard, Cold War Crucible: United States Foreign Policy and the Conflict in Romania, 1943-1952
Richard Immerman, ed., John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War
Howard Jones, "A New Kind of War": America's Global Strategy and the Truman
Doctrine in Greece
George F. Kennan and John Lukacs, George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment,1944-1946: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence
Michael Kort, The Columbia Guide to the Cold War
Ronald R. Krebs, Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy toward Eastern Europe under Eisenhower
Deborah Larson, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation
W. D. Miscamble, C.S.C., George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
Thomas J. Noer, Cold War and Black Liberation: The United States and While Rule in Africa, 1948-1968
Arnold A. Offner and Theodore A. Wilson, Editors, Victory in Europe 1945: From World War to Cold War
Thomas G. Paterson, Meeting the Communist: Threat Truman to Reagan
Sallie Pisani, The CIA and the Marshall Plan
Ronald Powaski, March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present
Glenn T. Seaborg, Kennedy, Khrushchev & the Test Ban
Barry H. Steiner, Bernard Brodie and the Foundations of American Nuclear Strategy
Marc Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963

United States and Europe Since 1945

G. A. Craig, and F. L. Loewenheim, The Diplomats, 1939-1979
Wm. Roger Louis, Imperialism at Bay: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire, 1941-1945
Anne Murray, editor, Great Britain, the United States and the Middle East: Discourse and Dissension
Thomas Risse-Kappen, Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy
Marc Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963

United States and Latin America Since 1945

Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
Walter LaFeber, The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective, Updated Edition
Kyle Longley, The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of José Figueres
Robert Pastor, Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean
Thomas G. Paterson, Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution

United States and East Asia Since 1945

Michael Barnhart, Japan and the World Since 1868
H. W. Brands, Bound to Empire The United States and the Philippines
Thomas J. Christensen, Useful Adversaries:Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958
Warren I. Cohen and Akira Iriye, The Great Powers In East Asia: 1953-1960
Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I, Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947
-----, The Origins of the Korean War, Volume II: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950
Roger Dingman, Ghost of War: The Sinking of the Awa maru and Japanese-American Relations, 1945-1995
John Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Arthur P. Dudden, The American Pacific: From the Old China Trade to the Present
Richard B. Finn, Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan
Aaron Forsberg, America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960
Akira Iriye, Japan and the WiderWorld: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
Chen Jian, China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation
Yukiko Koshiro, Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan
Walter LaFeber, The Clash: U. S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History
Mitchell B. Lerner, The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy
Gayle B. Montgomery, and James W. Johnson, One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland
Katharine H. S. Moon, Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations
Robert P. Newman, Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, Keystone: The American Occupation of Okinawa and U.S.-Japanese Relations
Michael Schaller, Altered States: The United States and Japan Since the Occupation
-----, The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia
-----, Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General
-----, The United States and China in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition
Michael Sheng, Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin, and the United States
William Stueck, The Korean War: An International History

United States and the Middle East Since 1945

John Boykin, Cursed is the Peacemaker: The American Diplomat Versus the Israeli General, Beirut, 1982
Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945

Vietnam

David L. Anderson, Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War, 1945­1975
David M. Barrett, Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection
-----, Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisors
Irving Bernstein, Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson
H. W. Brands, The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power
-----, The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam
Robert Buzzanco, Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era
Timothy N. Castle, At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: United States Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government, 1955-75
-----, One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam
Kenton J. Clymer, The Vietnam War: Its History, Literature, and Music
Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, eds., Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American Foreign Policy, 1963-1968
Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973
-----, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
Phillip B. Davidson, Vietnam at War: The History: 1946-1975
Jeremy M. Devine, Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of over 400 Films about the Vietnam War
Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger, International Perspectives on Vietnam
-----, Vietnam: The Early Decisions
James P. Harrison, The Endless War: Vietnam´s Struggle for Independence
George C. Herring, America's Longest War
-----, LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War
Guenter Lewy, America in Vietnam
Y. F. Khong, Analogies at War: Korea, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965
Jeffrey Kimball, Nixon's Vietnam War
David G. Marr, Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power
H.R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam
Robert McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Keith Nelson, Making of Detente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam
David Stebbenne, Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal
John F. Sullivan, Of Spies and Lies: A CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam
Spencer C. Tucker, Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, Military History
Brian VanDeMark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
Frank E. Vandiver, Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson’s Wars
Tom Wells, The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam

End of the Cold War and Beyond

H. W. Brands, editor, The Use of Force after the Cold War
Henry E. Catto Jr., Ambassadors at Sea: The High and Low Adventures of a Diplomat
Beth A. Fischer, The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations
James Gow, Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War
Michael J. Hogan, ed., The End of the Cold War: Its Meaning and Implications
Ned Lebow and Janice Stein, We All Lost the Cold War
Keith Philip Lepor, After the Cold War: Essays on the Emerging World Order
Ronald Powaski, Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999
Leon V. Sigal, Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea
Christian Smith, Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement
Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft

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