Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History

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The Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History are annual lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The lectures were named after the benefactor, Albert Shaw of New York City who had received his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University in history and who was editor of The American Review of Reviews.

Lecturers

Shaw lecturers over the years have included the following:

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References

  1. Back Matter advertisement for John H. Latané, The Diplomatic Relations of the U.S. and Spanish America (Johns Hopkins University Press) in George Ernest Barnett, ed., A Trial Bibliography of American Trade-Union Publications Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series XXII, Nos. 1-2 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1904): p. xi.
  2. Back Matter advertisement for James Morton Callahan, The Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy (Johns Hopkins University Press) in George Ernest Barnett, ed., A Trial Bibliography of American Trade-Union Publications, Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series XXII, Nos. 1-2 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1904): p. xi. p. xi.
  3. Published, with additional material, as American Diplomacy under Tyler and Polk (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1907).
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Identified in front matter, Henry Merritt Wriston, Executive Agents in American Foreign Relations (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1929).
  5. Published as British Interests and Activities in Texas, 1838-1846 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1910).
  6. Published as Diplomatic Negotiations of American Naval Officers, 1778-1883 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1912).
  7. Published as The West Florida Controversy, 1798-1813: A Study in American Diplomacy (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1918).
  8. Published as Early Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Mexico (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1916).
  9. Published as The Early Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Japan, 1853-1865 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1917).
  10. "Henry Merritt Wriston (1889-1978)". Archived from the original on October 6, 2013.
  11. Published as Pinckney's Treaty: A Study of America's Advantage from Europe's Distress, 1783–1800 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1926).
  12. State Security and the League of Nations (Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History, 1927). AMS Press. 1973 [1927]. ISBN   978-0404069599.
  13. Published as Bolivar and the Political Thought of the Spanish American Revolution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1938).
  14. Published as The Purchase of the Danish West Indies (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1932)
  15. Published as American Diplomacy During the World War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1934).
  16. 1 2 Johns Hopkins University Circular, Issue 9 (1936): 189.
  17. Published as The Monroe Doctrine, 1867-1907 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1937).
  18. "Albert Katz Weinberg". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on June 3, 2013. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
  19. Published as The Policy of the United States toward the Neutrals, 1917-1918 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1942).
  20. Henry H. Lesene, A History of the University of South Carolina, (University of South Carolina Press): 10.
  21. Published as Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1956).
  22. Published as Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955).
  23. Entry for Craig, International Who's Who of Authors and Writers, Vol. 19 (London: Europa Publications, 2003): 119.
  24. Published as Britain and the U.S.A. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963).
  25. Published in revised form as Cultural Internationalism and World Order (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
  26. Published as Neu, ed., After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).