PASSPORT THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS REVIEW VOLUME 51, NO. 1 APRIL 2020 IN THIS ISSUE NARA and Its Challenges A Roundtable on Under the Starry Flag A Guide to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho Negotiations AND MORE... Passport THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS REVIEW Editor Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University Assistant Editor Brionna Mendoza, The Ohio State University Production Editor Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University Editorial Advisory Board Heather Dichter, DeMontfort University (2020) Kelly McFarland, Georgetown University (2019-2021) Michael Brenes, Yale University (2020-2022) Founding Editors Mitchell Lerner, The Ohio State University (2003-2011) William J. Brinker, Tennessee Technological University (1980-2003) Nolan Fowler, Tennessee Technological University (1973-1980) Gerald E. Wheeler, San Jose State College (1969-1973) Cover Image: 1951, July. Courtesy of Harry S. Truman Library & Museum. Shown at a conference relating to the draft tripartite treaty among the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, are left to right, in the front row: Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, unidentified, Sen. John Sparkman, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. In the back row is John Foster Dulles, to the right and slightly behind Dean Acheson. The signing of the draft tripartite treaty, which was created from discussions that occurred between 1949 and 1951, was initialed in San Francisco, California, on July 12, 1951. Accession Number 96-1183. 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Kennedy Center for International Studies, and Middle Tennessee State University. © 2020 SHAFR Page 2 Passport April 2020 Passport THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS REVIEW Volume 51, Number 1, April 2020 In This Issue 4 Contributors 6 Presidential Message Kristin Hoganson 8 A Roundtable on Lucy Salyer, Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship Paul A. Kramer, David Brundage, Amy S. Greenberg, Daniel Margolies, Torrie Hester, and Lucy Salyer 19 Historial Documentation Cases and Concerns Kristin Hoganson 20 NARA’s Deepening Crisis Richard Immerman 22 A Roundtable on Jennifer M. Miller, Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan Aaron Skabelund, Hiromi Mizuno, Andrew C. McKevitt, Marc Gallicchio, and Jennifer M. Miller 33 Democracy Promotion is History Robert Pee 38 Warrior Knowledge: The West Point Center for Oral History David L. Anderson 40 A Practical Guide to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho Negotiations Volume John M. Carland, Robert Brigham, and Thomas A. Schwartz 43 SHAFR Spotlights 49 SHAFR Awards at the American Historical Association 53 Minutes of the January 2020 SHAFR Council Meeting 58 Diplomatic Pouch 60 Dispatches 62 The Last Word: Unpacking Tragedy: Trump, Iran, and “Maximum Pressure” Gregory Brew Passport April 2020 Page 3 Contributors Passport 51/1 (April 2020) David L. Anderson is Senior Lecturer of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and Professor of History Emeritus at California State University, Monterey Bay. He is the author or editor of numerous books on the Vietnam War, the most recent being Vietnamization: Politics, Strategy, Legacy (2020) that combines memoir and historical research. He is a past president of SHAFR. Gregory Brew is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He completed his Ph.D. at Georgetown University in 2018, and his work centers on U.S.-Iranian relations, the international political economy of energy, and the global development movement. He has published in International History Review, Iranian Studies, Mediterranean Quarterly, and Texas National Security Review. His current project examines the role of major oil corporations, development NGOs, and the U.S. government in the creation of the Pahlavi “petro-state” in the early Cold War. You can find him either on Twitter at @gbrew24 or at www. gregorybrew.com. Robert Brigham is Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (2018); Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power (2008); and Guerilla Diplomacy: The NLF’s Foreign Relations and the Vietnam War (1998). David Brundage is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published widely in the areas of U.S. immigration history and the history of the Irish diaspora, and is the author, most recently, of Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998 (2016). John M. Carland was a federal historian from 1985 to 2011. He is the author of the official history of the Army’s first eighteen months of combat in Vietnam, Combat Operations: Stemming the Tide, May 1965-October 1966 (2000), which he wrote while at the Army Center of Military History. Later, at the Office of the Historian at the Department of State, he compiled and edited two documentary histories of U.S. Vietnam policy in the FRUS series: Vietnam: January -October 1972 (2010) and Vietnam: October 1972-January 1973 (2010). In retirement, he completed a third volume for the Department of State, Vietnam: The Kissinger-Le Duc Tho Negotiations, August 1969-December 1973, which was published online in late 2017. Marc Gallicchio is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Villanova University. He is the author of several books on U.S.-East Asian relations, including The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945 (2000), which was awarded the Robert Ferrell Prize. He is also co-author, with Waldo Heinrichs, of Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (2017), which was awarded the Bancroft Prize. Amy S. Greenberg is George Winfree Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Penn State University, where she has taught since 1995. She is the author of five books, including the award-winning A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (2012); Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (2005); and, most recently, Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk (2019). She is currently researching and writing a history of nineteenth-century attitudes towards imperialism, focused on ordinary Americans. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities, and is currently president-elect of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Torrie Hester is Associate Professor of History at Saint Louis University. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Oregon. Her book, Deportation: Origins of U.S. Policy (2017), examines the national and international origins of U.S. deportation policy between 1875 and 1924. She has published on more contemporary deportations in venues such as the Washington Post and the Journal of American History. She is currently working on her second book project, Protecting Immigrants before Human Rights Law: International Law and Migration, 1840-1940. Kristin Hoganson is Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. She is the author of Consumer’s Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 (2007); American Empire at the Turn of the Century (2016); Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998); and, most recently, The Heartland: An American History (2019). She serves as SHAFR president in 2020. Page 4 Passport April 2020 Paul A. Kramer is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (2006), which received the OAH’s James A. Rawley Prize and SHAFR’s Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize. He is currently writing a book on the transnationalizing of U.S. history and a book on intersections between immigration policy and U.S. foreign relations. Daniel Margolies is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Virginia Wesleyan University. He is the author of Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations: Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877-1898 (2011), and Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade and Globalization (2006); the co-editor of The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics (2019); and editor of A Companion to Harry S. Truman (2012). He is currently writing books on U.S. jurisdiction in offshore submerged lands and on Texas- Mexican borderlands music. Andrew C. McKevitt is Associate Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University.