{"id":1011,"date":"2011-08-30T04:51:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T04:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-382pinsker\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:54:56","slug":"course-abstract","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History 282, \u201cUS Diplomatic History,\u201d with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets in Denny 211 during spring semester 2026 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1030am.\u00a0\u00a0The main course text will be George Herring&#8217;s sweeping study, <em>From Colony to Superpower<\/em> (2008).\u00a0 Students will also read journal articles by scholars such as Amanda Frost, Walter LaFaber, Thomas Lee, and Walter Russell Mead.\u00a0 The focal point of the semester will be an in-depth biographical paper assessing the contributions of an American historical figure to US diplomatic policy and traditions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3865\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3865\" class=\"wp-image-3865 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_1241-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Course photo\" width=\"940\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_1241-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_1241-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_1241-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_1241-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_1241-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_1241-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting to work in US Diplomatic History<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History 282, \u201cUS Diplomatic History,\u201d with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets in Denny 211 during spring semester 2026 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1030am.\u00a0\u00a0The main course text will be George Herring&#8217;s sweeping study, From Colony to Superpower (2008).\u00a0 Students will also read journal articles by scholars such as Amanda Frost, Walter LaFaber, Thomas Lee, and Walter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1011","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1011\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}