Louisiana Purchase, The
Historian Peter Onuf explains that Thomas Jefferson's interest in the Louisiana territory was not driven by a desire to double the size of the United States. Knowing that France had an interest in New Orleans, Jefferson was concerned that the new we...
Warrior to Priest...Presidents of the Early 1900s: Taft's Dollar Diplomacy
As president, Taft's main foreign policy interest is extending American investments into less-developed regions, a strategy known as "dollar diplomacy." Custom receiverships are set up in the Caribbean to create a stable environment for canal. But i...
Haiti and Dominican Republic: An Island Divided
In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of intermarriage, and how the country's troubled history with Haiti informs notions of racial classification. In H...