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SHAFR Opposes Defense Department's June 25 Proposal

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: Advocacy
Aug
04
Advocacy Statement

Protecting Access to Unclassified Records

SHAFR is a signatory to a letter sent to the Department of Defense strongly opposing its proposal to exempt controlled unclassified information (CUI) from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

CFP: Aid, Alliance, and Eighty Years

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: News
Jul
31
Call for Papers

Aid, Alliance, and Eighty Years:

Reassessing the Marshall Plan

Dates: April 14–15, 2027
Location: Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Convenors: Jeffrey A. Engel and Kaete O’Connell, SMU’s Center for Presidential History

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CFA: 2027 SHAFR Summer Institute

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: News
Jul
26
Call for Applications

2027 SHAFR Summer Institute

The Afterlives of Empire and Decolonization

Dates: June 20–24, 2027
Location: Texas A&M’s Bush School DC Campus
Faculty Directors: Jason Parker and Aileen Teague

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SHAFR Calls for the Preservation of S&I Records

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: Advocacy
Jul
21
Advocacy Statement

Preserving Congressional Records

SHAFR signed a letter calling on the U.S. House Appropriators to preserve, archive, and as appropriate make available reports by the Surveys & Investigations staff of the House Appropriations Committee.

Action Requested: Proper Stewardship & Preservation

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2026 Summer Write-Ins

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: News
Jul
20
SHAFR Events

Graduate Student Summer Write-Ins

Put writing back on your summer agenda! Join the SHAFR Graduate Student Summer Write-In for two focused hours of writing time.

Wednesdays: July 15, July 22, & July 29, 2026
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EDT

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CFP: SHAFR 2027

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: News
Jul
15
Call For Proposals

SHAFR 2027 Annual Meeting

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) invites proposals for its 2027 annual conference at the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus, Arlington, VA. We look forward to reflecting your passion and originality, and the range of approaches and topics to this complex historical field, including how we teach it, how we represent it in public, and its enduring relevance, in the program.

Deadline: November 1, 2026

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June 2026 Awards

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: News
Jun
23

June 2026 Awards

Emilie Connolly

Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize

2026 Recipient

In Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States (Princeton University Press) Emilie Connolly masterfully shows how it was not just Native American land that Americans used to build their continental empire; it was also Native wealth - in particular, money held in trust by the United States government. Beginning with the Senecas in the late 1790s, the burgeoning United States used Native trust capital to finance banks, canals, and other infrastructures of continental expansion. Drawn into this system of “fiduciary colonialism” to provide for their people across time, Connolly skillfully highlights how Native leaders envisioned what trusts could be, and how they used their annuities as long term investments in the public good. Innovative, exhaustive, and revelatory, Vested Interests reshapes how we must think of U.S. foreign relations and economic imperialism.

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CFS: European Forum on U.S. History 2026–2027 Seminar Series

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: News
Jun
06
Call For Speakers

European Forum on U.S. History
2026–2027 Seminar Series

The European Forum on U.S. History invites applications from scholars interested in presenting their work in the Forum’s 2026–2027 seminar series.

Deadline: June 28, 2026


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CFP: War and American Democracy

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: News
Jun
06
Call For Papers

War and American Democracy

Conference Dates: March 17-19, 2027
Location: Middelburg, The Netherlands

Deadline: August 28, 2026

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CFP: Infrastructures of Empire and Empires of Infrastructure in the Age of Fossil Fuel Take Off

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: News
Jun
06

Call for Papers: Infrastructures of Empire and Empires of Infrastructure in the Age of Fossil Fuel Take Off 

Call For Papers

Conference Dates: April 16-17, 2027

Location: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

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2027 Summer Institute CFP

by: Jeffrey Gilbert
Category: News
Jun
06

Call for Proposals: 2027 SHAFR Summer Institute 

(The 2027 SHAFR Annual Meeting will take place June 24–26, 2027 in Arlington, VA. The Summer Institute is held prior to the conference and can last anywhere from 3 to 5 days).

Call For Proposals

SHAFR 2027
Summer Institute

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) invites proposals to host the 2027 Summer Institute in the greater Washington, D.C. area (including Maryland and northern Virginia).

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