Chicago Fog’s historical writing often returns to a central question: what happens to law, liberty, diplomacy, and dissent when states confront war, crisis, and imperial ambition?
This reading path gathers essays and reviews on diplomacy, state formation, wartime repression, civil liberties, foreign policy, and the machinery of power.
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- Reconsidering Early Modern European Diplomatic Thought – A research essay on embassies, sovereignty, representation, and the intellectual history of diplomacy.
- Sound and Fury: The Last Stand of Isolationism – A historiographic essay on U.S. foreign policy and the prewar debate over isolationism.
- The Repression of Civil Liberties in the United States During World War I – A research paper on civil liberties, dissent, and wartime state power.
- Mercenaries: Private Military Force in the Atlantic World – A graduate paper on private military force, Atlantic history, and the boundaries of state power.
World War I, Dissent, and Civil Liberties
- The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties – A review of Harry N. Scheiber on Wilson, wartime authority, and civil liberties.
- Opponents of War 1917-1918 – A review of Peterson and Fite on antiwar activism, draft resistance, and wartime repression.
- Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I – A review of Eric T. Chester on free speech, dissent, and the Espionage Act.
- Unsafe for Democracy – A review of William H. Thomas on the Justice Department’s campaign against dissent.
- Clear and Present Danger – A review of Petra DeWitt on the legacy of the 1917 Espionage Act.
- America’s Reign of Terror – A review of Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht on World War I repression, Wilson, and free expression.
- The Americans Who Opposed the Great War – A review of Michael Kazin on the diverse activists who resisted U.S. entry into World War I.
Empire, Terror, and State Formation
- Imperial Blindness – An essay on American empire and Daniel Immerwahr’s account of U.S. power.
- The Day Wall Street Exploded – A review of Beverly Gage on the 1920 Wall Street bombing and America’s first age of modern terrorism.
- The Baron’s Cloak – A review of Willard Sunderland on war, empire, revolution, and Russia’s imperial collapse.
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