Category: diplomacy
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Abigail and Thomas
I probably can’t call Thomas Jefferson a metrosexual in my dissertation, but that’s why I have a blog. Abigail Adams is famous for bringing out the best in her correspondents, but Thomas’s letters to her are particularly striking, perhaps because we have so little to compare them to. He burned his wife’s letters shortly after…
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Republicans of Letters
Here are the slides for my January 26th talk at Brown University’s Center for Digital Scholarship, “Republicans of Letters: Historical Social Networks and The Early American Foreign Service Database.” The abstract ran as follows, “Jean Bauer, an advanced doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and creator of The…
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Leaks in the Age of Sail
As a diplomatic historian I have been meaning to write something about the Wikileaks debacle for some time now. However, my good friends at Monticello beat me to it when they interviewed me and then put the podcast online. So head over to their site and check it out. Listen to the podcast
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It’s [A]live!
It is with great pleasure, and no small amount of trepidation, that I announce the launch of the Early American Foreign Service Database (EAFSD to its friends). While the EAFSD has been designed as an independent, secondary source publication, it also exists symbiotically with my dissertation “Revolution-Mongers: Launching the U.S. Foreign Service, 1775-1825.” I created…
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Normality: For or Against?
I wrote this post a year ago, when the Scholars’ Lab Blog was just getting off the ground. To see the post in its original context (including the interesting conversation it sparked in the comments), click here. ****************** I’m a historian who is currently designing and/or building four databases. As I work through the complexities…