Classroom Documents
Below are recommended documents for use in classes on the history of U.S. foreign relations.
If you have any recommendations for additional documents, please contact Lori Clune, Director of Secondary Education on the SHAFR Teaching Committee.
Dollar Bill Great Seal, 1782
George Washington, “Farewell Address,” 1796
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden,” 1899
Woodrow Wilson’s Appeal to the People for Assistance in Maintaining Neutrality During the Onset of WWI, 1914
Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points, 1918
Ho Chi Minh Documents, 1930-1945
Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It, 1941
Henry Wallace, Century of the Common Man, 1942
Barrett to Acheson on Public Relations and NSC-68, 1950
The Shanghai “Joint Communiqué” (February 27, 1972)
Thomas Jefferson to Phillip Mazzei on Foreign Influence in U.S. Politics, April 1796
John L. O’Sullivan and “Manifest Destiny,” 1839
Alfred Thayer Mahan Advocates for a Strong Navy, 1890
Lida Calvert Obenchain, The Philippine War (June 1899)
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