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Federal History 2024

ISSUE 16


 

Cover: A view of Agaña, Guam, in 1817, by Louis Choris,
much as U.S. Consul Samuel Masters would have seen it in 1854. At left is the parish church, the Palacio, and the Treasury building. At right is the plaza with the officers’ homes in the distance. See the article on Masters’s tenure as consul on page 61.



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Contents

Title Page

Editor’s Note
 – Benjamin Guterman

Roger R. Trask Lecture
 "Do Not Be Afraid: Leading History Programs in Challenging Times"
– William P. Barry


ARTICLES

Reciprocal Sovereignty: The Franco-American Consular Convention, 1778–1788, and the Meaning of American Independence
– Simeon A. Simeonov

Out of Sight and Out of Mind: The Early Consular Service and the Facilitative State, 1776–1856
– Lawrence A. Peskin

Manifest Destiny’s Fortunes in the Western Pacific: The First and Last United States Consul to Guam, Samuel J. Masters, 1854–1856
– Chris Rasmussen

A Rationale for Aid: Moral Language in the Debates over the Mutual Security Act, 1951–1961
– Lauren F. Turek


INTERVIEW

An Interview with Amanda C. Demmer
– Alexander Poster


Roundtable

Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s by Michael Franczak

– Introduction by Simon Miles

– Review by Sean T. Byrnes

– Review by Ryan Irwin

– Review by Laura Kolar

– Review by Umut Özsu

– Author’s Response by Michael Franczak


Law & Constitution

Reviews in Legal History
– David E. Wilkins on Maggie Blackhawk, “Legislative Constitutionalism and Federal Indian Law”

 – Lisa K. Parshall on Gerald S. Dickinson, “The Fourth Amendment’s Constitutional Home”

Roundtable

The Partisan Republic: Democracy. Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s–1830s by Gerald Leonard and Saul Cornell

– Introduction by Matthew Crow

– Review by Katlyn Marie Carter

– Review by Graham G. Dodds

– Review by Jessica K. Lowe

– Review by Stephen J. Rockwell

– Author’s Response by Saul Cornell

– Author’s Response by Gerald Leonard


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.

For submissions or inquiries, e-mail the Federal History editors at federalhistory@gmail.com

ISSN 2163-8144 (print)

ISSN 1943–8036 (online)

           

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