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Category: Formation Essay

H-Diplo Essay 511- Mark Atwood Lawrence on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 By Mark Atwood Lawrence

What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a question that I playfully ask my daughters from time to time. Still pre-teens, they don’t face high-stakes decisions any time soon. Their answers are nevertheless fascinating. Veterinarian, scientist, musician, coach, writer—I’ve heard a lot of good possibilities that instill a bit of parental…

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H-Diplo Essay 503- Isabel V. Hull on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

December 9, 2022November 29, 2022 By Isabel V. Hull

The H-Diplo editors have asked about the “formative years” of scholars’ interest in international affairs. I honestly don’t know where it all started. I was a nerdy kid interested in history, natural and (I guess) unnatural, and politics very early on. I was an avid reader of Time, despite its “strange inverted Timestyle” (“Backward ran…

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H-Diplo Essay 450- J. Samuel Walker on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

September 19, 2022 By J. Samuel Walker

I came to a career as a professional historian naturally but indirectly. I began my college education at the University of Delaware as a pre-med major. The curriculum was heavily weighted toward the sciences, and I quickly concluded that biology was tedious, chemistry was bewildering, and physics was incomprehensible. By contrast, my history courses were…

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H-Diplo Essay 448- Thomas G. Paterson on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

July 22, 2022August 26, 2022 By Thomas G. Paterson

“Excuse me, sir,” an aide interrupts the president. “History is here to see you.” George W. Bush perks up. “History?” The assistant explains: “He seems ready to render a judgment.” Taken aback, the chief executive asks: “What about my papers? I don’t want him snooping around my papers!” No problem. “Already locked up forever, sir….

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H-Diplo Essay 443- Francis M. Carroll on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

June 16, 2022June 9, 2022 By Francis M. Carroll

I have so enjoyed reading this series of articles in H-Diplo by diplomatic historians on how they came to this profession.  What particularly has fascinated me are the twists, turns, and chance that somewhat improbably led so many to rewarding careers in the study and teaching of the history of international affairs.  I certainly fall…

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H-Diplo Essay 441- James H. Lebovic on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

June 3, 2022May 26, 2022 By James H. Lebovic

I have never been one for introspection.  I tend to look forward, not backward.  I suppose, however, that a career in international politics is a natural choice for me, given my own family history.  If not for World War II, my parents would not have met.  Then, global politics became a family affair, with relatives…

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H-Diplo Essay 437- Roger Dingman on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

May 13, 2022May 4, 2022 By Roger Dingman

How did I become the American international and naval historian that I am? I suppose it all began with stories.  Bible stories on Friday afternoons at the Catholic elementary school I attended.   Stories from the Book of Mormon that my grandmother told me. Stories depicted in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) artists’ murals at the…

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H-Diplo Essay 435- John Lamberton Harper on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

May 6, 2022April 27, 2022 By John Lamberton Harper

n the beginning was a name: John “Jack” Lamberton, the twin of Hugh, and one of my mother’s four brothers. They grew up in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia in the 20s and 30s. Their father, Robert E. Lamberton, was the Republican mayor of Philadelphia at the time of his death in 1941. After Pearl…

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H-Diplo Essay 400- Danielle Fosler-Lussier on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

December 21, 2021December 15, 2021 By Danielle Fosler-Lussier

I came to diplomatic history when the methods and knowledge base of my home discipline, musicology, were not quite sufficient to answer the questions I needed to ask. I am still a musicologist.  But my engagement with diplomatic history, and with history more broadly, has been formative for my work.  I believe, too, that musicology…

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H-Diplo Essay 397- Sheila Fitzpatrick on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

December 14, 2021December 10, 2021 By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Becoming a historian was perhaps over-determined in my family.  My father, Brian Fitzpatrick, wrote books on Australian economic and labour history; my mother Dorothy taught history; and my younger brother, David Fitzpatrick, would become a distinguished historian (of twentieth-century Ireland) in his turn.  But both David and I tried at first to avoid our fate,…

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