U.S. Foreign Relations from 1893 to the Present is the second part of From Colony to Superpower, an international narrative blends political, diplomatic, and military history with economic, cultural, and religious history. It includes a new introduction and a new chapter that brings the narrative up to the present.

• Introduction


• 1. The War of 1898 and the Dawn of the American Century, 1893-190119. "Bursting with Good Intentions": The United States in World Affairs, 1901-1913


• 2. "A New Age": Wilson, the Great War, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1913-1921


• 3. Involvement Without Commitment, 1921-1931


• 4. The Great Transformation: Depression, Isolationism, and War, 1931-1941


• 5. "Five Continents and Seven Seas": World War II and the Emergence of American Globalism, 1941-1945


• 6. "A Noble Burden Far From Our Shores": Truman, the Cold War, and the Revolution in American Foreign Policy, 1945-1953


• 7. Coexistence and Crises, 1953-1961


• 8. Gulliver's Troubles: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Limits of Power, 1961-1969


• 9. Nixon, Kissinger, and the End of the Postwar Era, 1969-1974


• 10. Foreign Policy in an Age of Dissonance, 1974-1981


• 11. "A Unique and Extraordinary Time in World History": Gorbachev, Reagan, Bush, and the End of the Cold War, 1981-1991


• 12. The Strength of a Giant: America as Hyperpower, 1992-2001


• 13. From 9/11 to the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001-2013


• Epilogue


• Bibiliographic Essay

George C. Herring is Alumni Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. A leading authority on U.S. foreign relations, he is the former editor of Diplomatic History and a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 and LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War, among other books.