Thomas Schoonover Recent Academic Activity, 2004 (13/05/04)

Book Publication:

Uncle Sam's War and the Origins of Globalization (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003).

Article Publications:

“History is 'Just one damn thing after another': The Life, Adventures, and Miraculous Escapades of a Wandering Historian,” Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 35:1 (April 2004):13-18.

Conference Papers/ Presentations/Lectures

“A German Spy and a British Novelist: Heinz August Lüning, Graham Greene's Man in Havana,” talk to the Graduate History Society at the Univ. of Iowa, 16 April 2004.

Book Reviews published:

John Seelye, War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism, in the Journal of American History 91 (April 2004):90;

Harris, Charles H., III, and Louis R. Sadler. The Archaeologist Was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003), in the American Historical Review, 109 (June 2004):547-48.

Research and Writing Projects in Progress:

"Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and Globalization," Historically Speaking 5:5 (June 2004): ;

"German Abwehr Agent Heinz August Lüning: Graham Greene's Man in Havana," 180-page book project in draft;

"Competitive Imperialism: The United States Challenges the World in Middle America, 1821-1929," 880 page manuscript in draft.

B. Professional

President SECOLAS, 2003-2004, presided at annual meeting, Santo Domingo, DR, 4-6 March 2004;

Served on the OAH David Thelen Prize committee, for 2004 Award, winner published in the Journal of American History;

research in National Archives, Jan. 2004; Graham Greene Papers, Georgetown U., Wash., DC, Jan. 2004; Library of Congress, Jan. 2004; Grahamn Greene Papers, Ransom Collection, Univ. of Texas, Austin, planned for June 2004; Staatsbibliotek, Berlin, and libraries of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, planned for June-Aug. 2004.

2. J. Professional Meetings:

American Historical Association, Washington, DC, 5-8 Jan. 2004;

SECOLAS conference, Santo Domingo, DR, 4 March-6 March 2004;

SHAFR conf., U. Texas, Austin, TX, 24-26 June 2004.

American Historical Association, Seattle, Wash., 6-9 Jan. 2005;

SECOLAS conference, Nashville, TN, 7-9 April 2005;