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Books

Annotated Charles Sawyer's Concerns of a Conservative Democrat (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968, 399 pp., of which 51 pp. are footnotes).

The Treaty of Portsmouth:  An Adventure in American Diplomacy (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1969, 194 pp.).

The Secretaries of the Department of the Interior, 1849-1969 (Washington, D.C.:  National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, 1975, 307 pp.).

The Presidency of Warren G. Harding  (Lawrence:  The Regents Press of Kansas, 1977; second printing, 1985; third printing, 1989; 232 pp., a volume in the American Presidency Series), co-authored with David Wilson, and selected by Book:  The Magazine for the Reading Life (September/October, 2000) as the best book on President Warren G. Harding.

The Future of the Academic Library:  Proceedings of the Conference Held at the University of Wisconsin in September 1989 (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Occasional Papers, Numbers 188 and 189, 1991, 107 pp.), editor.

The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations,
co-authored with Donald E. Davis, with Forewords by Lawrence S. Eagleburger and Vyacheslav Nikonov (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, 329 pp.).  Published in Russian as Pervaiia kholodnaia voina: nasledie Vudro Vil’sona v sovetsko-amerikanskikh otonosheniiakh, (Moscow, Russia:  Olma-Press Publishing House, 2002, 480 pp.). Published in Chinese (Peking University Press, 2007, 356 pp.).

Distorted Mirrors: American Images of Russia and China, 1891 – 1991, co-authored with Donald E. Davis, to be published in 2009 in English by the University of Missouri Press, in Chinese by the Peking University Press, in Russian by VAGRIUS Publishers of Moscow, and in Spanish by the University of Cordoba Press, Spain.

Higher Education, The Knowledge Economy and Economic Development, to be published in 2009 by the American Council on Education.

Scholarly Articles and Selected Papers - History and Foreign Policy

"Harding Administration and Recognition of Mexico," Ohio History, LXXV       (1966), 137-148, 190-192.

"Secretary Denby Takes a Trip," Michigan History, LI (1967), 277-297.

"Conflict or Compromise: Harold L. Ickes and Franklin D. Roosevelt," North Dakota Quarterly, XXXVI (1968), 20-29.

"Charles Evans Hughes:  The First Good Neighbor," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XL (1968), 138-152.

"Russia in 1905:  The View from the American Embassy," The Review of Politics, XXXI (1969), 48-65.

"Hubert Work and the Department of the Interior, 1923-1928," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, LXI (1970), 31-40.

"Woodrow Wilson, China, and the Missionaries, 1913-1921,” Journal of Presbyterian History, XLIX (1971), 328-351, reprinted in Chinese in Religion and American Society (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), 3 (2005), 281-314.

"Hubert Work," in Edward T. James, ed., Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Three, 1941-1945  (New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973), 845-846.

"Cautious Warrior:  Theodore Roosevelt and the Diplomacy of Activism,"      in Frank Merli and Theodore Wilson, ed., Makers of American Diplo­macy:  From Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Kissinger (New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974), 1-27.

"An American in Russia:  Russell M. Story and the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1919," The Historian, XXXVI (1974), 704-721, co-authored with Donald Davis.

"The American YMCA and the Russian Revolution," Slavic Review, XXXIII (1974), 469-491, co-authored with Donald Davis.

"Four American Fiddlers and Their Far Eastern Tunes:  A Survey of Japanese-American Relations, 1898-1941," in Bernard Gordon, ed., The New Political Economy of the Pacific (Cambridge:  Ballinger, 1975), 47-67.

"Woodrow Wilson and the Decision to Intervene in Russia:  A Reconsideration," Journal of Modern History, XLVIII (1976), 440-461, reviewed in Voprosy istorii, (Moscow), No. 11 (November, 1977), 204-205.

"Chinese in America:  The Nineteenth-Century Experience," in Thomas H. Etzold, ed., Aspects of Sino-American Relations Since 1784   (New York:  Franklin Watts/New Viewpoints, 1978), 25-47, co-au­thored with Frederick Hoyt.

"Dollar Diplomacy," in Alexander DeConde, ed., Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy (3 volumes, New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978), I, 268-274.

"Herbert Hoover and the Russian Revolution, 1917-1920," in Lawrence E. Gelfand, ed., Herbert Hoover, the Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914-23  (Iowa City:  University of Iowa Press, 1979), 113-142.

"The Foreign Policy of Nebraska," The Washington Quarterly, III (1980), 60-71, co-authored with Steven B. Sample.

"Interwar Diplomacy, 1920-1937," in Richard D. Burns, ed., Guide to American Foreign Relations Since 1700 (Santa Barbara, California:  American Bibliographical Center--Clio Press, 1983), 589-623, co-au­thored with Robert H. Ferrell and others.

"The Department of the Interior," in Richard C. Davis, ed., Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (New York:  Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983), 131-134.

"Ray Lyman Wilbur," in Warren F. Kuehl, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists (Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press, 1983), 774-775.

"Pointing with Pride, Viewing with Alarm:  A Review Essay of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers:  Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000," Wisconsin Magazine of History, 72 (1988), 51-55.

"Paul Simon, Midwestern Progressive:  A Review Essay of Paul Simon's    Winners and Losers:  The 1988 Race for the Presidency--One Candidate's Perspective," Wisconsin Magazine of History,73 (l989-l990), l34-l4l, co-authored with Jerrold C. Rodesch.

"The Influence of Russian Emigres on American Policy Toward Russia and the USSR, 1900-1933, with Observations on Analogous Develop­ments in Great Britain," Coexistence:  A Review of East-West and Development Issues, 28 (1991), 215-251, co-authored with Richard D. McKinzie.  A shortened version of this article appeared in Menorah Review, Numbers 24 and 25, 1992.

"Perspektivi Programmi Fonda Fulbraita v Rossii" (The Future Prospects for the Fulbright Program in Russia), in Istoricheskii Obraz Ameriki. Materiali mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferenzii, posviacshennoi dvadtzatiletiu programmi Fonda Fulbraita, sostoiavsheisia v MGU  (The Historical Image of America.  Materials of the International Scientific Conference, devoted to the 20th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program, Held in Moscow State University)  (Moscow:  Ladomir, 1994),  28-35.

"Teapot Dome Scandal," in Leonard W. Levy and Louis Fisher, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Presidency (4 volumes, New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1994), IV, 1448-1449.

"William Sidney Graves," John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography (24 volumes, New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999), IX, 437-439, co-authored with Susan Kennedy.

"Dollar Diplomacy," in Alexander DeConde, ed., Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, Second Edition  (3 volumes, New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002), I, 543-549.

“Buduschee Rossii I Ameriki: prodolzhitelnii ‘chechenskii’ urok” (America’s and Russia’s Future:  The Continuing Lessons of Chechnya), in Zvezda (Star), Number 1, (2003), 152-54.

“Pervaiia kholodnaia voina:  nasledie Vudro Vil’sona v sovetsko-amerikanskikh otonosheniiakh” (The First Cold War:  The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations), Vestnik Instituta Kennana v Rossii (Bulletin of the Kennan Institute in Russia), (Moskva, 2003), Vypusk 4, 77-84.

“Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923),” AmericanPresident.org (Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia), www.americanpresident.org/history/warrenharding/, 2003), contributing editor.

“Robert Lansing (1864-1928),” in Edward S. Mihalkanin, ed., American Statesmen:  Secretaries of State from John Jay to Colin Powell (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004), 314-324.

“Povest' o Dvukh Kennanakh: Amerikanskie Predstavleniia i Politika v Otnoshenii Rossii, 1891-1991" (A Tale about Two Kennans:  American Notions and Policies in Russian Relations, 1891-1991), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik, 2003 (American Yearbook, 2003), (Nauka, Moskva, 2005), 9-30, co-authored with Donald E. Davis.

“A Tale of Two Kennans: American-Russian Relations in the Twentieth Century,” in J. Garry Clifford and Theodore A. Wilson, eds., Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals, (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007), 31-55, co-authored with Donald E. Davis.

Scholarly Articles and Selected Papers - Higher Education

"Consumerism in the Classroom:  The Nebraska Experiment," in New Directions for the Student Consumer Movement (Washington, D.C.:  American Association of Higher Education, Current Issues in Higher Education, 1978), 7-12.

"College Teaching and the Adult Consumer:  Toward a More Sophisticated Student Body," Proceedings of the IEEE, LXVI (1978), 838-846, (invited paper, in a special issue on engineering education), co-authored with K. Patricia Cross, Steven B. Sample, and John Wiltse.

"Higher Education in Nebraska:  A Report Prepared for the Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education," Eric Document Reproduction Service  (Washington, D.C.:  1978, 57 pp.), ED 184449, HE 012474.

"Helping Students Become More Sophisticated Consumers of Their Own Education,"  Eric Document Reproduction Service (Washington, D.C.:  1981, 118 pp.), ED 251022, HE 017885.

"Strategies for Integrating Technology into a Major University System," Technology in Education and Training:  Planning and Management  (Silver Spring, Maryland:  Information Dynamics, Inc., 1984), 67-77, co-authored with Marge L. Ford.

"Higher Education in Saudi Arabia:  A Report Prepared for the Ministry of Planning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"  (Madison, Wisconsin:  1988, 96 pp.).

"Higher Education in Louisiana:  A Report on the Concept of a Single Governing Board for Public Higher Education in Louisiana" (Testimo­ny delivered in United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana in United States of America v. State of Louisiana, 1989, 30 pp.).

"The Changing Landscape of American Higher Education:  Essay and Bibliography," United States Information Agency Book Programs Division Series (Washington, D.C.:  1989, 107 pp.), co-authored with Clifton F. Conrad and Deborah L. Reilly.

Future Societal Trends, Implications for Teacher Education in the Twenty-first Century:  Papers from the University of Wisconsin System Conference at Wingspread  (Madison, Wisconsin:  University of Wisconsin System, 1989, 98 pp.), compiler.

"Challenges Met, Challenges Facing the Modern American University and Its Faculty," in Clyde J. Wingfield, ed., Faculty Responsibility in Contemporary Society (Washington, D.C.:  American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 1990), 1-25, co-authored with Clifton F. Conrad.

"The Scope and Limitations of Community Interactions,"  Metropolitan Universities, I (1990-1991), 27-39, co-authored with Charles P. Ruch.

"The Role of Topical Strategic Planning in University Systems," in Wava G. Haney and Donald R. Field, eds., Agriculture and Natural Re­sources: Planning for Educational Priorities for the Twenty-first Century (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991), 3-8, co-au­thored with Ruth Robertson.

"Conditions and Challenges for Higher Education in the United States," Network:  Publicacao Trimestral Do Centro De Estudos Norte-Americanos (Rio de Janeiro), Volume 2, Number 4, (Summer, 1992), 4-5.

"Keynote Address:  Changing Health Care Education:  The Challenge to Dental Schools," Journal of Dental Education; Volume 57 (July, 1993), 490-493.

“The Changing American College Presidency: From Public to Public-Private Leader,” Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, Volume 1 (1997), 34-39.

“Richmond at the Crossroads:  The Greater Richmond Metropolitan Area and the Knowledge Based High Technology Economy of the 21st Century,” (Richmond:  Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, 1998), 15 pp.

“Dublin Diaries:  A Study of High Technology Development in Ireland” (Dublin, Ireland:  Keough-Notre Dame Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 2002), 28 pp.

“Virginia Commonwealth University: A Partner in Richmond’s Revitalization,” Economic Development America, (Winter 2004), 9-11.

“A ‘Metroversity’ for a New Millennium,” in Nancy L. Zimpher and Kenneth R. Howey, eds., University Leadership in Urban School Renewal (Westport, Connecticut: American Council on Education and Praeger Publishers, 2004), 285-304.

Newspaper Op-ed (Opinion) Articles

"Moderate Tone Needed with Soviets:  Soviet-American Relations After Brezhnev," Kansas City Star, Forum Section, November 21, 1982, 1,4.

"Both UMKC and Community Gain from Interaction," Kansas City Star, Forum Section, June 12, 1983, 4.

"Transition Will Have Effects both Inside and Outside U.S.S.R.," Kansas City Star, Forum Section, February 19, 1984, 1,4.

"China the Friend vs. Russia the Foe, Different Perceptions Can't Help but Affect Shape of Foreign Policy," Kansas City Star, Forum Sec­tion, July 8, 1984, 1,4.  A summary of this article appeared in Canka Xiaoxi (The Reference News), (Beijing), May 20, 1984.

"Burned-out Hotel a Symbol of Philippines' Problems," Kansas City Star,        Forum Section, April 14, 1985, 4.

"Partnership at Stake in ANZUS Nuclear Controversy," Kansas City Star, Forum Section, April 21, 1985, 4.

"Kansas City Has a Stake in the World Beyond Its Doorstep," Kansas City Star, Forum Section, December 22, 1985, 6.  A slightly differ­ent version of this article appeared in The Congressional Record-U.S._Senate, December 20, 1985, S 18324.

"Thatcher is Remaking British Political Scene," The Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin, Other Voices, July l3, l987, ll.

"Reform Tests Communism," Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Opinion Section,
May 7, 1989, 16A.

"The Richmond-VCU Dynamic," Richmond Times-Dispatch, Perspective Section, September 2, 1990, H-7.           

"Reason Should Guide VCU Growth," Richmond Times-Dispatch, Perspective Section, November 18, 1990, F-7.

"VCU's Urban Mission Termed an Asset for All of Virginia," Waynesboro News-Virginian, December 12, 1990, A-10.  Slightly different ver­sions of this article appeared in the Newport News Daily Press, December 22, 1990, the Staunton, Virginia, Daily News Leader, December 24, 1990, and the Lynchburg News and Daily Advance, April 14, 1991.

"Urban Universities' Diverse, Expanding Role," The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, December 28, 1990, A-12.

"The U.S. Must Work with Soviets," Newport News Daily Press, Outlook Section, February 3, 1991, I1, I4.

"A Marshall Plan for Higher Education in the Soviet Union Would Work Toward Ending the Cold War Once and for All," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section 2, March 13, 1991, B1, B3.  This article appeared in The Congressional Record - U.S. Senate, June 26, 1991, S 8819.  It has also been printed in newspapers in the Soviet Union.  In Moscow it appeared in Pravitelstvenniija Vestnik (Govern­ment Messenger), May 11, 1991 and in Leningrad in Sovetskii Uchitel (Soviet Teacher), June 6, 1991.  This idea was also present­ed in testimony before the Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives, September 24, 1991.

"Do We Really Know What PC Is About?," Richmond Times-Dispatch, Perspective Section, July 28, 1991, F-7

"A Marshall Plan for Higher Education in the Soviet Union," Roanoke Times and World-News, August 2, 1991, A-9.

"Soviets Can Profit from U.S. Schools," The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, October 28, 1991, A-6.

"Health Care and Biomedical Outreach," Capitol Forum:  The Newspaper of Capitol Square, Richmond, December, 1991, 10.

"90's Higher Education:  An Endangered Species,"  Richmond Times-Dispatch, Perspective Section, March 15, 1992, F-7.

"Foreign Affairs is Everybody's Business," Roanoke Times and World-News, Horizon Section, April 5, 1992, F-3.  This article also appeared in The Virginia-Pilot, Norfolk, May 4, 1992, A-10.

"U.S. Needs New Foreign Policy That Sees Russia's Needs Clearly," The Tampa Tribune, August 19, 1992, Peninsula-5.

"Biotech Park and Spinoffs Will Benefit City, State," Richmond Times-Dispatch,
October 7, 1992, A-11.

"A Time for Collaboration with Africa", Richmond Free Press, December     10-12, 1992, 7.

"Can Russia's Economy Fly?  Aid to Republics a Job for U.S.," Newport News Daily Press, Outlook Section, February 28, 1993, H1, H4.
    
"Gorbachev Led the Way for Forces of Freedom," Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 9, 1993, A-11.

"Lesson for Yeltsin:  Chinese Tortoise Passes Russian Hare," Richmond Times-Dispatch, Commentary Section, October 17, 1993, F7.  This article also appeared in The Korea Herald, Seoul, October 27,1993, 6.

"Virginia Education Works for Business," Newport News Daily Press, Outlook Section, November 21, 1993, H1, H4.  This article also appeared in the Richmond Free Press, November 24-27, 1993, 7, and The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, November 29, 1993, A-6.

"No Burning Secrets:  Taking Exception," The Washington Post, Outlook Section, July 3, 1994, C-11.

"Putting Radiation Experiments in Context," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section 1, August 10, 1994, A-40.

"Why Trade with China Will Help the U.S.," Newport News Daily Press, Outlook Section, September 11, 1994, F1, F4.  This article also appeared in the Roanoke Times and World-News, Horizon Section, September 18, 1994, B-3.
"The Challenge to the Academic Medical Center," Virginia Medical Quarterly, 1994, Volume 121, 215.

"The Distorted Landscape of Intercollegiate Sports," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section 2, March 17, 1995, B1-B2. An abridged version of this article appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Sports Section, March 19, 1995, D-4, and The NCAA News, March 22, 1995, Volume 32, Number 12, 4-5.
“Why American Universities Beat Oxbridge,” The Times (London), September 11, 1995, 37.

“Question of Survival, Medical Centers Need Relief From Red Tape: VCU Needs Freedom to Compete in Market,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, Commentary Section, February 11, 1996, Fl.

“A Miracle in South Africa,” Richmond Free Press, March 7-9, 1996, 6, co-authored with L. Douglas Wilder.  This article also appeared in Black Issues in Higher Edu-cation, November 28, 1996.

“Creating a Broader Model of Shared Governance,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section 1, January 10, 1997, A-72.  This article also appeared as Ch. 11 in Paul J. Olscamp, Moral Leadership: Ethics and the College Presidency (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003), 147-51.
“Industry – Based Education:  VCU Answers High-Tech’s Call,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 21, 1998, A-13.

“Showcase the I-64 Corridor,” Newport News Daily Press, December 19, 1998, A-11.

“High-Tech and Biotech Fit Nicely Into Traditional Richmond,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 27, 1999, A-16.

“Fresh Fields Present Healthy Opportunity for R&D,” Irish Independent, November 21, 2002.

“Keep Research Money for Colleges in State Budget,” The Virginian-Pilot, Hampton Roads, February 15, 2006.

“On the Boulevard: VCU Envisions Sports Complex,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 7, 2006, F-2.

“Russia 2006: Criticize, but Don't Exclude,” International Herald Tribune , September 15, 2006, 8.

“Global Impact: Take Note, America: India Is Coming,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 19, 2006, E3.

“Time Magazine Missed an Opportunity,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 12, 2008, A11.

“Master Plans Acknowledge Symbiotic Relationship,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 27, 2008, E6.

“Even in Hard Times, Colleges Should Help Their Communities,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 54, Issue 36, May 16, 2008, A-36.

“School Promotes Academic Excellence,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 31, 2008.

Book Reviews

“Even in Hard Times, Colleges Should Help Their Communities,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 54, Issue 36, May 16, 2008, A-36.

Calvin D. Davis, The United States and The First Hague Peace Conference, in Indiana Magazine of History, 59 (1963), 396-397.

John A. White, The Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese War, in Wisconsin Magazine of History, 48 (1965), 248-249.

List of National Archives Microfilm Publications:  1966, in Ohio History 75 (1966), 268.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1943, Volume II, Europe: 1944, Volume III, The British Commonwealth and Europe; and 1944, Vol­ume IV, Europe in The South Atlantic Quarterly, 66 (1967), 265-267.

Betty Glad, Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of InnocenceA Study in American Diplomacy, in Ohio History, 76 (1967), 259-260.

John Thompson, Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace, in Canadian Slavic Studies, 1 (1967) 327-328.

Anatolij Ignat'ev, Russko-anglijskie otnosenija nakanune Oktjabrskoj revoljucii, in Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, 15 (1967), 448-449.

Raymond A. Esthus,  Theodore Roosevelt and Japan, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 58 (1967), 219.

Beatrice Farnsworth, William C. Bullitt and the Soviet Union, in The Russian Review, 27 (1968), 256-57

James V. Compton, The Swastika and the Eagle:  Hitler, the United States and the Origins of World War II, in Military Affairs, 32 (1968), 37-38.

Charles Neu, An Uncertain Friendship, Theodore Roosevelt and Japan, 1906-1909, in The Journal of Asian Studies, 27 (1968), 643-644.

Waldo H. Heinrichs, Jr., American Ambassador:  Joseph C. Grew and the Development of the United States Diplomatic Tradition, in The Review of Politics, 30, (1968), 396-397.

Herbert Passin, The United States and Japan and Frank Golay, The United States and the Philippines in The Review of Politics, 30 (1968) 509-511.

Richard P. Traina, American Diplomacy and the Spanish Civil War, in the Southern Illinois University Daily Egyptian, November 9, 1968.

N. Gordon Levin, Jr., Woodrow Wilson and World Politics:  America's Response to War and Revolution, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 60 (1969), 112.

Arno J. Mayer, Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking:  Containment and Counter-revolution at Versailles, 1918-1919, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 60 (1969), 234.

Arnold H. Taylor, American Diplomacy and the Narcotics Traffic, 1900-1939:  A Study in International Humanitarian Reform, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 62, (1971), 41-42.

Raymond A. Esthus, Theodore Roosevelt and the International Rivalries, in Pacific Historical Review, 60 (1971), 248-249.

Howard B. Schonberger, Transportation to the Seaboard:  The_"Communication Revolution" and American Foreign Policy, 1860-1900, in Pacific Historical Review, 61 (1972), 540-541.

Vera Vishnyakova-Akimova, Two years in Revolutionary China, 1925-1927, in The Russian Review, 32 (1973), 102-103.

James B. Gidney, ed., Edward T. Heald, Witness to Revolution:  Letters from Russia 1916-1919, in The Review of Politics, 35 (1973), 439-441.

Ernest R. May and James C. Thomson, Jr. eds., American-East Asian Relations:  A Survey, in The Journal of American History, 60 (1973), 514-515.

Richard W. Van Alstyne, The United States and East Asia, in The Journal of American History, 61 (1974), 472-473.

Burton I. Kaufman, Efficiency and Expansion:  Foreign Trade Organization in the Wilson Administration 1913-1921 and Arthur Link, et al., Wilson's Diplomacy:  An International Symposium, in The American Historical Review, 81 (1976), 682-683.

Calvin D. Davis, The United States and the Second Hague Peace_Conference:  American Diplomacy and International Organization, 1899-1914, in The Journal of American History, 64 (1977), 185-187.

Norman A. Graebner, The Age of Global Power:  The United States Since 1939, in The History Teacher, 13 (1979), 135-136.

Robert A. Devine, Blowing on the Wind:  The Nuclear Test Ban Debate, 1954-1960, in The Review of Politics, 42 (1980), 118-119.

James K. Libbey, Alexander Gumberg and Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1933, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 71 (1980), 90.

David L. Porter, Seventy-Sixth Congress and World War II, 1939-1940 in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 72 (1981), 87.

Thomas R. Maddux, Years of Estrangement:  American Relations with the Soviet Union, 1933-1941, in The American Historical Review, 86 (1981), 223.

William C. Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy, in The History Teacher, 15 (1982), 465.

Gerald K. Hines and Samuel J. Walker, eds., American Foreign Relations:  A Historiograhpical Review in The History Teacher, 15 (1982), 611-612.

Ellis Hawley, Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce:  Studies in New Era Thought and Practice, in The American Historical Review, 87 (1982), 1184.

Linda Killen, The Russian Bureau:  A Case Study in Wilsonian Diplomacy, in The Journal of American History, 71 (1984), 660-661.

Raymond A. Esthus, Double Eagle and Rising Sun:  The Russians and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905 in The International History Review, XI (1989), 149-150.

Frederick F. Travis, George Kennan and the American--Russian Relationship, 1865-1924 in The International History Review, XII (1990), 813-815.

Donald D. Johnson, The United States in the Pacific: Private Interests and Public Policies, 1784-1899 in The International History Review, XVIII, (1996), 664-666.

Carol Willcox Melton, Between War and Peace:  Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918-21, in The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 15 (2002), 182-183, (co-reviewed with Donald E. Davis).

Michael Cassela-Blackburn, The Donkey, the Carrot and the Club:  William C. Bullitt and Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1948, in The Journal of American History, 92 (2005), 103, (co-reviewed with Donald E. Davis).

Grants and Fellowships

United States Department of the Interior Research Grants, Summers, 1965 and 1966

Annual Grants from the Southern Illinois University Office of Research and Projects, 1967-1974

American Philosophical Society Grants, Summer, 1968; Summer, 1972

Princeton University, Visiting Research Fellow, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson,
National Historical Publications Commission Fellowship in Advanced Editing of Documentary Sources in American History, 1969-1970

Southern Illinois University Summer Research Grants, 1970; 1972; and 1975

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship, 1972-1973

Younger Humanist Award, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-1973

Southern Illinois University Sabbatical Leave Fellowship, 1975-1976

Lilly Endowment Grant, 1975-1976

Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education Grant, 1978

Moscow State University, USSR, Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American History, Council for International Exchange of Scholars Fellowship, University of Missouri Faculty Fellowship, 1981

United States Information Agency American Participants Program Grants, 1094; 1985; 1986; 1988; 1990

University of London, Office of the Vice Chancellor, Visiting Professor, 1987

Institute for United States Studies Fellowship, University of London, 1995

St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, Fellow Commoner, 1998

University College Dublin, Visiting Professor, 2002

Lincoln College, Oxford, Senior Visiting Scholar, 2005

St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, Senior Visiting Scholar, 2007

Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School, The Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Visiting Scholar, 2008