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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 444- George C. Herring on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

June 24, 2022June 14, 2022 By George C. Herring

I have often reflected that through some stroke of good fortune I drifted rather aimlessly into a career that has been rewarding and immensely satisfying. As a student at Roanoke College, 1953-1957, I could have been a poster boy for the so-called Silent Generation: apolitical, devoid of ambition and sense of purpose, floating with an…

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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 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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H-Diplo Essay 395- Eliot A. Cohen on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

December 7, 2021December 1, 2021 By Eliot A. Cohen

My career has been, I suppose, that of a changeling – an historian trapped in a political scientist’s body, an occasional bureaucrat and diplomat, a Dean and a pundit.  My field has been that of ‘hard,’ i.e., military national security, but also military history, and some topics much further afield, to include a current project…

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H-Diplo Essay 393- Paul Betts on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

November 30, 2021November 24, 2021 By Paul Betts

Growing up in 1970s Phoenix was hardly an obvious starting point for a career as a historian of Modern Europe.  In formal terms of American history, Arizona was one of the newest political entities of the New World, having only acquired statehood in 1912, the last territory in the contiguous United States to do so,…

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