The Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History are annual lectures delivered at
Johns Hopkins University
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in
Baltimore, Maryland
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. The lectures were named after the benefactor,
Albert Shaw of New York City who had received his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University in history and who was editor of ''The American Review of Reviews''. Shaw lecturers over the years have included the following:
*1899:
John H. Latané
*1900:
James Morton Callahan
*1906:
Jesse Siddall Reeves
*1907:
Elbert Jay Benton
*1909:
Ephraim Douglass Adams
Ephraim Douglass Adams (December 18, 1865 in Decorah, Iowa – September 1, 1930 in Stanford, California) was an American educator and historian, regarded as an expert on the American Civil War and British-American relations. He was known as a gr ...
*1911:
Charles O. Paullin Charles Oscar Paullin (20 July 1869 – 1 September 1944) was an important naval historian, who made a significant early contribution to the administrative history of the United States Navy.
Early life and education
Raised in Greene County, Ohio, P ...
*1912:
Isaac Joslin Cox
Isaac Joslin Cox, Ph.D. (1873–1956) was an American professor of history.
He was born at West Creek, Ocean Co., N. J. He graduated from Dartmouth College and for several years did research in Mexico. He then pursued postgraduate studies at ...
*1913:
William R. Manning
*1914:
Frank A. Updyke
*1916:
Payson Jackson Treat
*1921:
Percy Alvin Martin
*1924:
Henry Merritt Wriston
Henry Merritt Wriston (July 4, 1889 – March 8, 1978) was an American educator, presidential advisor, and served as president at both Brown University and Lawrence University.
Early life
Henry Merritt Wriston was born in Laramie, Wyoming, the s ...
*1926:
Samuel Flagg Bemis
Samuel Flagg Bemis (October 20, 1891 – September 26, 1973) was an American historian and biographer. For many years he taught at Yale University. He was also president of the American Historical Association and a specialist in American dip ...
*1927:
Bruce Williams
*1928:
J. Fred Rippy
*1929:
Joseph Byrne Lockey
*1930:
Víctor Andrés Belaúnde
Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco (15 December 1883 – 14 December 1966) was a Peruvian diplomat, politician, philosopher and scholar. He chaired the 14th Session and the 4th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly ...
*1931:
Charles C. Tansill
*1932:
*1933:
Charles Seymour
Charles Seymour (January 1, 1885 – August 11, 1963) was an American academic, historian and the 15th President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951. As an academic administrator, he was instrumental in establishing Yale's residential colleg ...
*1934:
*1935:
Frank A. Simonds
*1936:
Julius W. Pratt
*1937:
Dexter Perkins
*1938:
*1939:
Albert K. Weinberg
*1940:
*1941:
Thomas A. Bailey
*1942:
Wilfred H. Callcott
*1943:
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*1946:
Malbone Watson Graham
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*1947:
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*1953:
Howard K. Beale
*1954:
Max Beloff
Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, (2 July 1913 – 22 March 1999) was a British historian and Conservative peer. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal of the University College of Buckingham, now the University of Buckingham.
Early life
Beloff was born ...
*1955:
*1956:
Arthur S. Link
Arthur Stanley Link (August 8, 1920 in New Market, Virginia – March 26, 1998 in Advance, North Carolina) was an American historian and educator, known as the leading authority on U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
Early life
Born in New Market ...
*1957:
*1958:
Gordon A. Craig
Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913 – October 30, 2005) was a Scottish-American liberal historian of German history and of diplomatic history.
Early life
Craig was born in Glasgow. In 1925 he emigrated with his family to Toronto, Onta ...
*1959:
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*1961:
Herbert George Nicholas
*1968:
Robert A. Divine
*1979:
Bradford Perkins
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*1988:
Akira Iriye
is a historian of diplomatic history, international, and transnational history. He taught at University of Chicago and Harvard University until his retirement in 2005.
In 1988 he served as president of the American Historical Association, the ...
*1998:
Charles E. Neu
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,
Brian Balogh
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,
George C. Herring,
Robert K. Brigham, and
Robert S. McNamara
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[Published as Neu, ed., ''After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).]
References
Shaw, Albert