Issue 9, 2017

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note

Benjamin Guterman

Roger R. Trask Lecture

Monuments, Commemorations, and Legacies

— Donald A. Ritchie

ARTICLES

Eisenhower’s Mutual Security Program and Congress: Defense and Economic Assistance for Cold War Asia

— Eric Setzekorn

The Role of Oscar Cox in the Creation of the War Refugee Board, 1943–1944

— W. Raymond Palmer

Negotiating for the Environment:  LBJ’s Contributions to the Environmental Movement

— Nancy M. Germano

Defoliating Fence and Foxhole: An Unconventional Response to an Irregular Threat Along the Korean DMZ, 1967–1969

— Heather M. Haley

“Defeat Is an Orphan”: The Kennedy Administration and the Bureaucratic Tug-of-War over the Bay of Pigs

— Eric R. Martell

Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Battleship Maine

— Kenneth C. Wenzer

Research and Resources

When Historians and Curators Go to War: Capturing History When and Where It Happens

— Françoise B. Bonnell, Kenneth Finlayson, David Hanselman, and Richard E. Killblane

Contributors

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Federal History features scholarship on all aspects of the history and operations of the federal government, and of critical historical interactions between American society and the government, including the U.S. military, 1776 to the present. It also publishes articles examining contemporary issues and challenges in federal history work. The journal highlights the research of historians working in or for federal agencies, academic historians, and independent scholars.

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