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• Addressing America: George Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852 Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 2015

1. Addressing America : George Washington's Farewell and the making of national culture, politics, and diplomacy, 1796-1852 LCCN 2014049291 Type of material Book Personal name Malanson, Jeffrey J., 1980- author. Main title Addressing America : George Washington's Farewell and the making of national culture, politics, and diplomacy, 1796-1852 / Jeffrey J. Malanson. Published/Produced Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2015] Description ix, 253 pages ; 25 cm. ISBN 9781606352519 (hardcover : alk. paper) Shelf Location FLM2015 161769 CALL NUMBER E312.952 .M35 2015 OVERFLOWJ34 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms (FLM2) Shelf Location FLM2016 154783 CALL NUMBER E312.952 .M35 2015 OVERFLOWJ34 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms (FLM2)

• Jeffrey Malanson - https://jeffreymalanson.com/

  As a historian, my research focuses on early American politics and foreign policy, with an emphasis on the ways the lives, legacies, and historical memory of the founding fathers were used by Americans for a variety of political and diplomatic ends.

  My first book project, Addressing America: George Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852, reevaluates the importance of George Washington’s presidential Farewell Address in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. The Farewell Address was a critical document in shaping U.S. foreign policy and political culture, yet has largely disappeared from the historical record beyond discussion of its publication. Click here for more information about the book.

  I am currently researching my second book, tentatively titled, Hamilton and Madison: Nationalism and Political Principle in the Early Republic.

  I am also the Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary academic journal Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. We publish articles in three interrelated areas: (1) literature as informed by historical understandings, (2) historical writings considered as literature, and (3) philosophy of history. For more information, check out Clio‘s website or send an email to clio@ipfw.edu.

• Jeffrey Malanson - https://jeffreymalanson.com/aboutme/

  I knew from an early age that I wanted to study U.S. history, although it wasn’t until I got to college that I decided that I would be a historian. I earned a B.A. and M.A. from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and my Ph.D. from Boston College. I have worked at IPFW since 2010.

  Aside from studying the founders, I enjoy spending time with my wife and son doing almost anything at all. Having spent most of my life in Massachusetts, I am a die-hard fan of Boston sports teams, especially the Red Sox and Patriots. I am an avid reader and enjoy listening to unhip music and binge-watching TV shows.

• AHA Today - http://blog.historians.org/2013/01/aha-member-spotlight-jeffrey-j-malanson/

  AHA Member Spotlight: Jeffrey J. Malanson
  January 30, 2013 Permalink Short URL
  AHA members are involved in all fields of history, with wide-ranging specializations, interests, and areas of employment. To recognize our talented and eclectic membership, AHA Today features a regular AHA Member Spotlight series. The members featured in this column have been randomly selected and then contacted by AHA staff. If you would you like to nominate a colleague for the AHA Member Spotlight, please contact Nike Nivar.
  Jeffrey J. Malanson is assistant professor of early American history at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). He lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana (where he and his wife just bought their first house) and has been an AHA member since 2009.

  Jeffrey J. Malanson
  Alma maters: MA and PhD, Boston College; BA and MA, Clark University
  Fields of interest: early American Republic, U.S. political and diplomatic history, United States in the world
  When did you first develop an interest in history?
  In the first grade I remember waiting in a barbershop and reading books on Christopher Columbus and Abraham Lincoln; in the fifth grade I remember being enthralled listening to my teacher talk about George Washington. Back then I didn’t know I would go on to get a PhD, but I was hooked on history. Every year from fifth grade forward I planned on being a social studies teacher in whatever grade I happened to be in at the time. When I got to college I realized that I loved the immersion in history that being a historian offered—the reading, the research, the writing. Ultimately, I came back to George Washington in graduate school.
  What projects are you working on currently?
  I’m putting the finishing touches on my book manuscript, Addressing America: Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796–1852. The book investigates how George Washington’s presidential Farewell Address shaped American politics and foreign policy from the Federalist Era through the American tour of Hungarian revolutionary Louis Kossuth. I am also interested in how the American people used the address to make sense of their country’s rising status and place in the world.
  A bit outside the realm of history, I’m also a co-principal investigator on an e-textbook pilot that we’re running here at IPFW. We want to assess how, if at all, student learning is impacted by transitioning from paper books to e-texts.
  What is the last great book or article you have read?
  In preparation for a workshop on the Civil War that a colleague and I recently ran for Fort Wayne teachers, I decided to read James McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom. While I’m sure that it’s a book many/most AHA members are familiar with, I had never read the whole thing. As a historian early in my career it was a humbling experience reading such a masterfully constructed volume. Its narrative is propulsive, which is especially impressive given that the book is almost 900 pages long.
  While I read it almost a year ago, I also really enjoyed Jay Sexton’s The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America. It offers a really persuasive argument about the meaning and evolution of the Monroe Doctrine as the United States emerged as a world power.
  What do you value most about the history profession?
  I struggled with how to answer this question. There is a great deal that I value about being a historian and working at a university. While sometimes I am jealous of my friends and family members who can leave work at the end of the day or go on vacation for a week and turn that part of their brain off, I wouldn’t trade being a historian for anything (or at least not for anything feasible—I would love to play for the Boston Red Sox but my lack of athletic ability took that off the table years ago). I think what I value the most, though, is the relative freedom I enjoy to explore what I’m interested in and am passionate about. Whether it’s reading a new book, researching for a new project, creating a new course, integrating a new piece of technology, or a world of other opportunities, I have the ability to make my work what I want it to be. The fact that in the process I’m helping to “create new knowledge,” to reconstruct the past, and educate new students, serves to make it all the more a worthwhile pursuit.
  Do you have a favorite AHA annual meeting anecdote you would like to share?
  I’ve been to one AHA annual meeting and it was the year that I was on the job market. The few days that I was in San Diego in 2010 were a whirlwind of stress, anxiety, and relief, although my conference hotel room looked out on a spot my wife and I had visited a few years earlier on our honeymoon, and that made me feel strangely confident that something would work out.
  Other than history, what are you passionate about?
  Movies and Boston sports.

• IPFW - https://www.ipfw.edu/departments/coas/depts/history/about-us/jeffrey-malanson.html

  Jeffrey Malanson
  IPFW.edu College of Arts and Sciences Department of History About Us Jeffrey Malanson
  Dr. Jeffrey Malanson
  Dr. Jeffrey MalansonJeffrey Malanson, Associate Professor
  E-mail: malansoj@ipfw.edu
  Office: LA 203
  Office Hours: MWF 10:00 - 11:00 AM and by appointment
  Phone: 260-481-6694
  Website

  Jeffrey J. Malanson earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Clark University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston College. As a historian, his research focuses on U.S. politics and foreign policy from the 1780s to the 1850s. His first book, Addressing America: George Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852, was published by Kent State University Press in 2015. He has also published articles in the Journal of the Early Republic, the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, and Diplomatic History. At IPFW he teaches the first half of the American History survey, the department’s course on oral communication, and upper-level courses on Colonial America, Revolutionary America, U.S. From 1789-1840, American Diplomatic History 1776-1920, Atlantic World 1400-1900, and a senior seminar on the U.S. Founding Fathers. Dr. Malanson is also the editor-in-chief of Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History.

  Research Interests:

  U.S. politics and foreign policy from the 1780s to the 1850s

  I am currently working on a book tentatively titled, Hamilton and Madison: Nationalism and Political Principles in the Early Republic.

  Publications:

  Book

  Addressing America: George Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852. New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2015.

  Articles and Book Chapters

  “The Founding Fathers and the Election of 1864.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 36 (Summer 2015): 1-25.

  “‘If I Had It in His Hand-Writing I Would Burn It’: Federalists and the Authorship Controversy over George Washington’s Farewell Address, 1808-1859.” Journal of the Early Republic 34 (Summer 2014): 219-42.

  “Manifest Destiny: The Monroe Doctrine and Westward Expansion (1816-1861).” In The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History, The Colonial Period to 1877. Edited by Christos Frentzos and Antonio Thompson, 215-22. New York: Routledge, 2014.

  “Foreign Policy in the Presidential Era.” In A Companion to George Washington. Edited by Edward G. Lengel, 506-23. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.

  “George Washington.” In Chronology of the U.S. Presidency. Edited by Mathew Manweller, 4 vols., 1:1-34. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012.

  “James Knox Polk.” In Chronology of the U.S. Presidency. Edited by Mathew Manweller, 4 vols., 1:327-55. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012.

  “‘Entangling Alliances with None’: John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, and the Impact of Conflicting Interpretations.” New England Journal of History 66 (Fall 2009): 26-36.

  “The Congressional Debate over U.S. Participation in the Congress of Panama, 1825-1826: Washington’s Farewell Address, Monroe’s Doctrine, and the Fundamental Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy.” Diplomatic History 30 (Nov. 2006): 813-38.

  “Comparison of the Structure and Accuracy of Two Land Change Models.” International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19 (Feb. 2005): 243-65 (with Robert G. Pontius Jr.).

  Reviews

  Democracy’s Muse: How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All While Being Dead, by Andrew Burstein. Political Science Quarterly. Forthcoming.

  A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe, edited by Stuart Leibiger. Presidential Studies Quarterly. Forthcoming.

  “Pragmatism vs. Idealism in Jeffersonian Statecraft: A Review of Francis D. Cogliano’s Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy.” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 45 (Jan. 2015): 12-14. Roundtable review with Jay Sexton, Eliga H. Gould, Shannon E. Duffy, Robert J. Allison, and Francis D. Cogliano.

  The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013, by Noel Maurer. Enterprise & Society 15 (Sept. 2014): 577-79.

  The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy, by Jeffrey L. Pasley. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 112 (Spring 2014): 287-89.

  “A Year of Consequence.” Review of 1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year, edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard. Fort Wayne (IN) Journal Gazette, 5 May 2013.

  “Monroe’s Doctrine or Monroe Doctrines? A Review of Jay Sexton’s The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America.” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 43 (Apr. 2012): 7-9. Roundtable review with Alan McPherson, William Earl Weeks, and Jay Sexton.

  Courses:

  Fall 2015

  -H105-American History to 1877

  -A345-American Diplomatic History I, 1776-1920

  Spring 2016

  -H125-Great Debates: An Introduction to Historical Communication

  -A302-Revolutionary America

  Summer 2016

  -H360-Atlantic World, 1400-1900 (online course)

• CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF NORTH EAST INDIANA - https://civilwarroundtableofnei.wordpress.com/about-jeff-malanson/

  About Jeff Malanson

  Malanson

  Dr. Jeffrey J. Malanson will be presenting on his recently published article, “The Founding Fathers and the Election of 1864,” which examines the ways that Republicans and Democrats used the memories and legacies of the founding fathers to shape the presidential campaign of 1864.

  Dr. Malanson is an associate professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. His research focuses on the politics and foreign policy of the early American republic and the historical memory of the founding fathers. His book, Addressing America: George Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852, was published in 2015 by Kent State University Press.

• Jeff Malanson - https://jeffreymalanson.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/jeffrey-j-malanson-cv-20161.pdf

  JEFFREY J. MALANSON, PH.D.
  Department of History
  Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
  2101 E. Coliseum Blvd Fort Wayne, IN 46805
  Office: (260) 481-6694 Email: malansoj@ipfw.edu
  http://jeffreymalanson.com
  ACADEMIC POSITIONS
  July 2016-present Associate Professor of History
  Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
  August 2010-June 2016 Assistant Professor of History
  Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
  EDUCATION
  Ph.D. in History, Boston College, 2010.
  Dissertation: “Addressing America: Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National
  Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852”
  Recipient of the 2010 Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Donald and
  Hélène White Prize for outstanding dissertation in the social sciences.
  M.A. in History, with Distinction, Boston College, 2006.
  M.A. in History, Clark University, 2004.
  B.A. in History, with Highest Honors, magna cum laude, Clark University, 2003.
  CURRENT PROJECTS
  Hamilton and Madison: Nationalism and Political Principle in the Early Republic. Book project currently
  being researched.
  “The Congress of Panama in American Memory, 1826-1899.” Article project currently being
  researched.
  BOOK
  Addressing America: George Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and
  Diplomacy, 1796-1852. New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations. Kent, OH: Kent State
  University Press, 2015. Also published as an audiobook in 2016.
  ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
  “The Founding Fathers and the Election of 1864.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 36
  (Summer 2015): 1-25.
  “‘If I Had It in His Hand-Writing I Would Burn It’: Federalists and the Authorship Controversy
  over George Washington’s Farewell Address, 1808-1859.” Journal of the Early Republic 34
  (Summer 2014): 219-42.
  “Manifest Destiny: The Monroe Doctrine and Westward Expansion (1816-1861).” In The
  Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History, The Colonial Period to 1877.
  Edited by Christos Frentzos and Antonio Thompson, 215-22. New York: Routledge, 2014.
  Jeffrey J. Malanson 2
  “Foreign Policy in the Presidential Era.” In A Companion to George Washington. Edited by Edward
  G. Lengel, 506-23. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.
  “‘Entangling Alliances with None’: John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, and the Impact of
  Conflicting Interpretations.” New England Journal of History 66 (Fall 2009): 26-36.
  “The Congressional Debate over U.S. Participation in the Congress of Panama, 1825-1826:
  Washington’s Farewell Address, Monroe’s Doctrine, and the Fundamental Principles of
  U.S. Foreign Policy.” Diplomatic History 30 (Nov. 2006): 813-38.
  “Comparison of the Structure and Accuracy of Two Land Change Models.” International Journal
  of Geographical Information Science 19 (Feb. 2005): 243-65 (with Robert G. Pontius Jr.).
  REFERENCE WORKS
  “James Madison.” In Shaping the New World: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and
  Document Collection. Edited by James Seeyle, Shawn Selby, and Christine Eisel. Santa
  Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Forthcoming.
  “Congress of Confederation.” In Shaping the New World: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia
  and Document Collection. Edited by James Seeyle, Shawn Selby, and Christine Eisel. Santa
  Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Forthcoming.
  “George Washington.” In Chronology of the U.S. Presidency. Edited by Mathew Manweller, 4 vols.,
  1:1-34. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  “James Knox Polk.” In Chronology of the U.S. Presidency. Edited by Mathew Manweller, 4 vols.,
  1:327-55. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  REVIEWS
  Review of The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution, by Robert G.
  Parkinson. Journal of American Ethnic History. Forthcoming.
  Review of A Powerful Mind: The Self-Education of George Washington, by Adrienne M. Harrison.
  Journal of Southern History. Forthcoming.
  Review of A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe, edited by Stuart Leibiger. Presidential
  Studies Quarterly 46 (June 2016): 489-90.
  Review of Democracy’s Muse: How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a
  Tea Party Fanatic, All While Being Dead, by Andrew Burstein. Political Science Quarterly 131
  (Spring 2016): 172-73.
  “Pragmatism vs. Idealism in Jeffersonian Statecraft: A Review of Francis D. Cogliano’s Emperor
  of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy.” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign
  Relations Review 45 (Jan. 2015): 12-14. Roundtable review with Jay Sexton, Eliga H. Gould,
  Shannon E. Duffy, Robert J. Allison, and Francis D. Cogliano.
  Review of The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas,
  1893-2013, by Noel Maurer. Enterprise & Society 15 (Sept. 2014): 577-79.
  Jeffrey J. Malanson 3
  Review of The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy, by Jeffrey L.
  Pasley. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 112 (Spring 2014): 287-89.
  “A Year of Consequence.” Review of 1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year, edited by Harold Holzer and
  Sara Vaughn Gabbard. Fort Wayne (IN) Journal Gazette, 5 May 2013.
  “Monroe’s Doctrine or Monroe Doctrines? A Review of Jay Sexton’s The Monroe Doctrine: Empire
  and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America.” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign
  Relations Review 43 (Apr. 2012): 7-9. Roundtable review with Alan McPherson, William Earl
  Weeks, and Jay Sexton.
  HONORS / AWARDS
  Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant, Indiana University-Purdue University
  Fort Wayne, 2013
  Summer Faculty Research Grant, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2011
  Donald and Hélène White Prize for outstanding dissertation in the social sciences, Boston
  College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2010
  Teaching Fellowship, Boston College, 2009-2010
  Kate B. & Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2009-2010
  Summer Research Stipend, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston
  College, 2009
  Honorable Mention, Best Graduate Student Paper Prize, New England Historical Association,
  2008-2009
  Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2008-
  2009
  Dissertation Fellowship, Boston College, 2008-2009
  Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College, 2007-2008
  University Fellowship, Boston College, 2004-2009
  Vouras Award for academic achievement in the social sciences, Clark University, 2003
  CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
  Chair/Comment, “Franco-American Connections and Comparisons, 1815-1848: State-Building,
  Race, and Revolution,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Raleigh, NC,
  July 2015.
  “‘George Washington, the founder of American independence, and Abraham Lincoln, the
  liberator of the slave’: The Founding Fathers and the Election of 1864,” Lincoln
  Colloquium, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept. 2014.
  “‘Careful not to adopt or endorse all the opinions of President Washington’: Washington’s
  Farewell Address, Monroe’s Doctrine, and the Battle over Foreign Policy Ideals in the
  1840s,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA, June 2013.
  “‘If I had it in his Hand-Writing I would burn it’: The Authorship Controversy over George
  Washington’s Farewell Address,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History, New York, NY, Nov.
  2011.
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  Chair/Comment, “Jefferson and Education,” Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids,
  MI, Oct. 2011.
  “The First Crisis: Nootka Sound and the Founders’ Competing Conceptions of U.S. Foreign
  Policy,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Alexandria, VA, June 2011.
  “‘Intervention for Non-Intervention’: Yucatan, Hungary, and American Principles, 1848-1852,”
  Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Springfield, IL, July 2009.
  “‘Doctrines which may be unsound’: Intervention, Popular Enthusiasm, and Louis Kossuth’s
  Visit to the United States, 1851-2,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,
  Falls Church, VA, June 2009.
  “‘Washington or Kossuth?’: Washington’s Farewell Address and American Principles of
  Foreign Policy in the Popular Mind, 1851-2,” Conference of the New England Historical
  Association, Portland, ME, Apr. 2009.
  “John Quincy Adams, the Principles of American Foreign Policy, and the Mexican-American
  War,” Conference of the New England Historical Association, Beverly, MA, Oct. 2008.
  Honorable Mention, Best Graduate Student Paper Prize.
  “John Quincy Adams and the Unrealized Turning Point in the Principles of American Foreign
  Policy,” Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, MO, Sept. 2008.
  OTHER RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
  “‘George Washington, the founder of American independence, and Abraham Lincoln, the
  liberator of the slave’: The Founding Fathers and the Election of 1864,” Fort Wayne Area
  Seminar in American History, Fort Wayne, IN, Dec. 2014.
  “‘If I had it in his Hand-Writing I would burn it’: The Authorship Controversy over George
  Washington’s Farewell Address, 1808-1859,” Fort Wayne Area Seminar in American
  History, Fort Wayne, IN, Oct. 2012.
  “‘If I had it in his Hand-Writing I would burn it’: The Battle over George Washington’s
  Legacy,” IPFW Anthropology Club Luncheon Lecture Series, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept. 2012.
  “Washington’s Farewell Address and American Foreign Policy,” IPFW Department of History
  Lunch with an Historian Series, Fort Wayne, IN, Oct. 2010.
  “Washington’s Farewell Address in the American Mind, 1796-1817,” Boston College
  Department of History Dissertation Workshop, Chestnut Hill, MA, Mar. 2010.
  “Addressing America: Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and
  Diplomacy, 1796-1852,” Fellowship Talk, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA,
  Aug. 2009.
  “Addressing America: Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and
  Diplomacy, 1796-1852,” Brown Bag Lunch Presentation, Massachusetts Historical Society,
  Boston, MA, Sept. 2008.
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  “George Washington, the Farewell Address, and the Principles of American Foreign Policy,”
  invited lecture, George Washington Symposium, Alexandria, VA, Feb. 2007.
  PUBLIC LECTURES
  “The University: Its Past, Present, and Future,” Panel Discussion, UC2: University Community
  Conversation, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Feb. 2016.
  “Religion and the Founding Fathers,” IPFW University Religious Forum, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept.
  2015.
  “The Uses and Misuses of the Past,” IPFW Anthropology Club Luncheon Lecture Series, Fort
  Wayne, IN, Apr. 2015.
  Poster Presentation, “Why Do Americans Care About the Founding Fathers?,” Science and
  Society at IPFW / Campus Visit Day, Fort Wayne, IN, Nov. 2014.
  Moderator, “The Internationalization of IPFW,” Panel Discussion, UC2: University Community
  Conversation, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Nov. 2014.
  “What Would George Washington Do?,” Rewire Program for Life-Long Learners, IPFW
  Division of Continuing Studies, Fort Wayne, IN, Oct. 2014.
  “How Do We Know When the Constitution is Broken?,” Panel Discussion, American
  Democracy Project at IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept. 2014.
  Moderator, “World War I and the Making of the Modern World,” Panel Discussion, UC2:
  University Community Conversation, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept. 2014.
  “The united States of America, 1776-1787,” IPFW Honors Eligibility Day, IPFW, Fort Wayne,
  IN, Apr. 2014
  Moderator, “Liberal Education and Global Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century,” Panel
  Discussion, UC2: University Community Conversation, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Feb. 2014.
  “JFK, Presidential Legacies, and Historical Memory,” Fort Wayne Rotary Club, Fort Wayne, IN,
  Oct. 2013.
  “1863: The Civil War’s Pivotal Year,” Panel Discussion, UC2: University Community
  Conversation, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept. 2013.
  “Democracy in America,” Panel Discussion, IPFW University Democrats and Young Americans
  for Liberty, Fort Wayne, IN, Apr. 2013.
  “What Would Washington Do?: George Washington and Modern U.S. Foreign Policy,” Fort
  Wayne International Affairs Forum, Fort Wayne, IN, Feb. 2013.
  “From Cleopatra to Clinton: Sex Scandals through the Ages,” Panel Discussion, UC2:
  University Community Conversation, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Feb. 2013.
  “The Politics of Emancipation,” at “Lincoln’s Gamble: The Emancipation Proclamation,” Panel
  Discussion, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN, Jan. 2013.
  Jeffrey J. Malanson 6
  “Great Books, Liberal Education, and Democracy,” Panel Discussion, UC2: University
  Community Conversation, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Oct. 2012.
  “Personal Freedoms in a Post-9/11 World,” Panel Discussion, UC2: University Community
  Conversation, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept. 2011.
  “9/11: Reflections on Ten Turbulent Years,” Panel Discussion, UC2: University Community
  Conversation, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept. 2011.
  “George Washington and the United States Constitution,” American Democracy Project at
  IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN, Sept. 2010.
  MEDIA AND INTERVIEWS
  “WBOI Presents,” “The University: Its Past, Present, and Future,” Panel Discussion, UC2:
  University Community Conversation, aired on Northeast Indiana Public Radio on 24
  February 2016
  “The Author’s Corner with Jeffrey Malanson,” The Way of Improvement Leads Home, 8 June 2015.
  http://www.philipvickersfithian.com/2015/06/the-authors-corner-with-jeffreymalanson.html
  “WBOI Presents,” hour-long panel discussion on Article V of the U.S. Constitution and the
  possibility of a convention of the states to amend the Constitution, aired on Northeast
  Indiana Public Radio on 11 June 2014.
  Interviewed for “Long Leading the Charge for Constitutional Convention,” Fort Wayne (IN)
  Journal Gazette, 8 June 2014.
  PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
  August 2015-present Editor-in-Chief, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the
  Philosophy of History
  Peer Reviewer Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Journal of
  the Early Republic, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
  UNIVERSITY SERVICE
  Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Presiding Officer, IPFW Senate
  Spring 2016 IPFW Top 50 Outstanding Student Award Selection Committee
  Fall 2015-Spring 2016 University Budget Committee
  Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Ad Hoc Committee on Senate Committees and Subcommittees,
  IPFW Senate
  Fall 2014-present Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee, IPFW Senate
  Chair, Fall 2014-present
  Fall 2012-present Executive Committee, IPFW Senate
  Fall 2012-Spring 2016 Parliamentarian, IPFW Senate
  Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Project #mobileEDU iPad Cohort
  COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (COAS) SERVICE
  Spring 2015-Fall 2015 COAS Requirements Working Group
  Chair, Spring 2015-Fall 2015
  Jeffrey J. Malanson 7
  Fall 2012-Spring 2014 Parliamentarian, COAS
  Fall 2012-Spring 2013 COAS Self-Study Subcommittee on College Mission
  Spring 2011-Spring 2015 UC2: University Community Conversation Programming
  Committee
  Chair, Fall 2011-Spring 2015
  Fall 2011-Spring 2015 Nominations and Elections Committee
  Chair, Fall 2012-Spring 2015
  Fall 2011-Spring 2013 Faculty Affairs Committee
  Chair, Fall 2012-Spring 2013
  DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
  Spring 2016, 2014, 2011 Sharon Alt Piepenbrink Best Paper Award Committee
  Spring 2016, 2014, 2013, 2011
  Panel Moderator, Annual Undergraduate History Department
  Conference
  Spring 2015, 2011 Judie and Ralph Violette History Scholarship Committee
  Fall 2014-present, Fall 2011-Spring 2013
  Department Representative, COAS Council
  Fall 2013-present General Education Coordinator, American History to 1877
  Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Modern European History Job Search Committee
  Spring 2013 Department Representative, COAS Honors Banquet
  Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Program Review Committee
  Spring 2011-present Academic Advisor
  Spring 2011-present School Based Programs Advisory Committee
  PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
  American Historical Association
  Organization of American Historians
  Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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Addressing America: George Washington's Farewell and the
Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-
1852
Nathaniel Millett
Journal of Southern History.
82.4 (Nov. 2016): p914.
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Addressing America: George Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852. By Jeffrey J.
Malanson. New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2015. Pp. x, 253. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-60635-251-
9.)
George Washington is remembered by most Americans as a brilliant military leader, a wise president, and an honest gentleman planter who was
the chief architect of American independence before providing the young republic with pivotal leadership during its infancy. Yet American
memory and perception of Washington has been far from static, with subsequent generations left to draw new and sometimes conflicting lessons
from the life of the first president.
Addressing America: George Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852, by Jeffrey J.
Malanson, tackles questions of memory and legacy by examining how politicians and the public interpreted and were influenced by Washington's
famous Farewell Address. Remembered best for the warning against "entangling alliances," the Farewell Address cast a long shadow over
American political culture and foreign policy debates through the middle of the nineteenth century (p. 3). More specifically, Malanson contends
that the address provided much of the bedrock on which early national American foreign policy was built. However, the half century after
Washington's death was a time of rapid change in which the young republic frequently found its fortunes at home and abroad to be in flux. This
flux necessitated a balancing act between, on one hand, demonstrating appropriate respect for one of early America's "sacred" yet essentially
isolationist texts and, on the other hand, responding to new foreign policy challenges and geopolitical realities that Washington could not have
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foreseen (p. 4). Malanson seeks to analyze this tension over time and to assess how the Farewell Address influenced antebellum American foreign
policy and political culture.
Malanson's argument unfolds over the course of 181 brisk pages of text that are divided into six chapters. Based on archival research in published
governmental documents, newspapers, pamphlets, organizational records, and personal papers, Addressing America begins with an examination
of the Farewell Address's origins. Next, Malanson turns to Thomas Jefferson and his era. Here the author asserts that both public and political
perceptions of the Farewell Address were forever altered by Jefferson's emphasis on the warning about entangled alliances and the rise of
benevolent societies devoted to enshrining the legacy of Washington. Chapter 3 focuses on the foreign policy thought of John Quincy Adams
during his tenure as both secretary of state and president. Malanson contends that Adams felt compelled to alter many of Washington's
fundamental principles in response to a changing geopolitical landscape in both Europe and the Americas. Central to this discussion is the
Monroe Doctrine, which, according to Malanson, evoked strong emotions from those who advocated a foreign policy inspired by the Farewell
Address and those who favored a more assertive American presence abroad. These tensions came to a head in 1826 during debates surrounding
American participation in the Congress of Panama, the subject of chapter 4. Chapter 5 examines the role that the Farewell Address played in
growing sectional tensions as well as the document's impact on debates surrounding foreign policy and the war with Mexico. The concluding
chapter is an extended discussion of Louis Kossuth's tour of the United States during 1851 and 1852.
By the end of Addressing America, it is clear that the Farewell Address played a role in shaping early American political culture and foreign
policy debates. However, it is somewhat less clear exactly when various actors really were grappling directly with the Farewell Address's legacy
rather than merely debating an array of foreign policy topics. Nonetheless, Addressing America is an interesting contribution to the history of
nineteenth-century American foreign policy.
NATHANIEL MILLETT
Saint Louis University
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  In February 1862, the Pennsylvanian Republican John W. Forney read aloud George Washington’s ‘Farewell Address’ on the Senate Floor. The occasion? It was the 130th anniversary of the first President’s birth. Each year the United States Senate continues to observe Washington’s Birthday in the same manner, alternating between speakers from each party. In 2012, this custom was observed for the 150th time, but the reader, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), cut a lonely figure – not a single one of her colleagues was in attendance (with the exception of Sen. Richard Blumenthal, obliged to be present as the Senate Pro Tempore). In the same week, the House opened a committee of its own: ‘Honoring George Washington’s Legacy: Does America Need a Reminder?’ Perhaps the North Wing of the Capitol should have been sent a memo too.

  This was not always the case. In a concise and lively study, Jeffrey Malanson recaptures the fierce political debates surrounding the evolving framework provided by Washington’s valedictory address for understanding domestic politics and international relations in the United States. As a caution against the ‘common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party’ and a nuanced forumla advocating a cautious approach to foreign affairs, the Farewell Address is a familiar and frequently cited document. As the flexible instrument through which citizens in the early republic understood and reformulated the role of the fragile Union in the community of nations, it is much less appreciated. Addressing America is a fresh consideration of this totemic document that successfully opens out its wider importance to the domestic and foreign policies of the United States.

  The central theme of Addressing America is of the continuous evolution of the Farewell Address. For Malanson, the Farewell Address is the compass with which American statesmen and citizens navigated the problems of independence and nation-building. ‘People throughout the nation’, writes the author, ‘derived their understanding of the development of the United States, its relationship with the wider world, and ultimately its responsibilities on the global stage from Washington’s Farewell Address’ (p. 4). Closely argued and deeply researched, Addressing America tracks the reinvention of Washington’s Farewell across the various wars, crises, and imperial ventures of the United States. ‘Popular reverence for Washington and his principles ensured that they would continue to guide U.S. Presidents and policy makers’, Malanson writes, and demonstrates admirably the centrality of Washington’s message to the major events of antebellum foreign affairs (p. 4).

  Addressing America is neither a standard diplomatic or intellectual history of American statecraft. In To The Farewell Address, Felix Gilbert’s masterly account of the intellectual origins of Washingtonian statecraft, the integration of realism and idealism ‘constitutes the distinguishing feature of the Farewell Address’.(1) Malanson helpfully moves us beyond this dialectic to the manifold processes, ideas, and international contexts that contributed to the Address’ evolution. Similarly, Malanson shifts the focus from the intellectual inheritance of enlightenment political philosophy embodied in Alexander Hamilton’s penmanship of the message to the volatile realm of public debate where the Address was reformulated and given centre stage in the discussion of the United States’ role in international affairs; and away from the original authors to its subsequent editors in the State Department, as US statesmen attempted to navigate the unfolding dramas of independence and nation-building.

  Although it was Washington’s Farewell, therefore, he was powerless to control its meaning. The most enduring transformation came soon after its inception. In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson did more than any subsequent statesman to fix the meaning of the Farewell Address in the minds of the American public. Standing before Congress, Jefferson sought to lay out the ‘essential principles of our Government’ and, in a famous formulation, promised ‘peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none’. In an ironic twist, Malanson notes, Jefferson had ‘oversimplified’ the Farewell Address’ ‘pragmatic and flexible maxims for the conduct of American foreign relations into a rigid and permanent declaration of virtual isolation from the rest of the world’ (p. 34). Jefferson’s phraseology echoed Washington’s (though they were separated by a great distance in meaning) and intersected with the powerful myth-making that greeted Washington’s death in December 1799. In the public mourning that followed, Washington was elevated to the pantheon of American revolutionary heroes and the Address to holy writ. Over time, as the distinction between Jefferson’s phrase and Washington’s maxims blurred, the precept of ‘entangling alliances with none’ crystallised into foreign policy principle.

  For a fragile post-colonial republic, vulnerable along its exposed Atlantic seaboard; bound by European Empires, north and south; and pressed in the west by powerful Indian confederacies, the question of independence loomed large. Washington’s Address therefore sprang to prominence in the War of 1812 – commonly viewed as the Union’s second War for Independence from Britain. Malanson deftly traces the Federalist resurgence through the rapid spread of Washington Benevolent Societies, equivalent to, though less successful than, the Democratic Republican Societies that swept Jefferson to power in 1800. By 1812, these societies could be found in 11 states, and four years later numbered more than 200 (p. 51). The societies attempted to wrestle the Address’ meaning back from the Jeffersonian Republicans, blaming the war on their abandonment of Washington’s wise counsel. Not content to fight a prolonged and brutal conflict along the border with Upper Canada, Americans engaged in a partisan battle over the meaning of the revolution and how best to secure independence. Malanson clearly evokes the partisan utility of Washington’s Address for the surging Federalists while the war endured, less clear is its utility to those who invoked it as a practical guide for navigating the imperial predicaments the republic encountered and especially for ending the conflict.

  The most far-reaching transformation of the Address came from John Quincy Adams. A flexible and expansive thinker, Adams sought freedom of action for American foreign policy across the western hemisphere – rather than in terms of the Old World/New World division that stood at the heart of the Founding generation’s thought. Malanson lucidly traces Adams’ attempts to eliminate European influence in the Americas and preserve future opportunities for westward expansion. To do so, Monroe’s Secretary of State expanded the principles of separate spheres and non-colonization – most famously articulated in the Monroe Doctrine. This was dramatic evolution of the Farewell Address: ‘Adams converted Washington’s moderate cautions to Americans themselves into a warning to European rulers to pursue their own policy of neutrality towards the Americas’ (p. 82). This was also an imperial doctrine. Both principles worked on the assumption that European colonization would give way to US dominance of the Americas.

  As President, Adams sought to extend these principles further at the Panama Congress convened by Simón Bolivar in 1826. For Adams, the Congress was ‘both a venue at which to clarify and reinforce America’s continued adherence to Washington’s recently expanded principles and an opportunity to have those principles accepted internationally’ (p. 84). If Adams was a clear-headed thinker, he was a poor communicator and badly mismanaged the Congressional debate that followed (pp. 102–11), which resulted in a three week distraction that ultimately doomed the mission. Badly damaged by the ‘corrupt bargain’ that had propelled him to the Presidency in 1824, Adams was a divisive figure and presided over the emergence of the Second Party System. Elevated by Adams’ rapidly coalescing domestic opponents to partisan principle, ‘entangling alliances with none’ dominated Congressional and public discussion. For their part, Adams’ supporters failed to make a principled defence of the President’s reinterpretation of the Farewell Address. The Panama Debate, Malanson argues, was the ‘day of reckoning for these two increasingly divergent views of the Farewell Address’ (p. 98). Jefferson’s inflexible isolation easily won the day and the US Ministers never made it to Panama.

  Not that Malanson would have us believe that American statesmen were guided solely by ideology. The statesmen in the pages of Addressing America are realists, opportunists, and geostrategic thinkers. This is most evident in Malanson’s consideration of the presidencies of Tyler and Polk (chapter five). In his pursuit of Texas, President John Tyler ‘became willing to abandon Washington’s Farewell Address and pervert the doctrine of two spheres’ (p. 128). For His Accidency and Young Hickory, it was not the Farewell Address that proved the most flexible instrument of empire-building but the Monroe Doctrine. In the process, the pair ‘moved the United States away from strict adherence to the maxims of Washington’s Farewell Address’ (p. 130) – or more properly, away from the fixed meaning it had acquired at the hands of Jefferson. As the sectional crisis over slavery deepened thanks to Polk’s imperial conquest of Mexico, ‘unionist concerns and a growing ambivalence about America’s foreign-policy principles’ increasingly influenced popular interpretations of Washington’s Address. Indeed, Malanson argues, while the Address ‘remained an enduring statement of American ideals’ for others it was increasingly ‘a relic’ (p. 146) – or in Abel Upshur’s formulation while it had been ‘suited to our infant conditions … we should remember that the infant of that day has grown into a powerful commercial nation, whose interests are diffused over every quarter of the globe’ (p. 144). As Upshur’s words suggest, the nationalist language of Manifest Destiny arguably overwhelmed the moderation of the Address, a fuller consideration of which would be helpful in setting the discussion of the Farewell Address in its wider context.

  If pressed to select the document that loomed largest in the minds of American statesmen, most historians of antebellum foreign policy would not be as assured as Malanson in asserting that ‘the Address remained the most important document in shaping Americans’ understandings of their foreign-policy principles and the relationship of their nation with the rest of the world’ (p. 181). In historiographic terms, Addressing America complements Jay Sexton’s Monroe Doctrine (2011), David Hendrickson’s fresh interpretation of the concept of ‘Union’ in 19th-century American statecraft, and, to a lesser extent, David Armitage’s study of the Declaration of Independence.(2) All of these works highlight the flexibility of the texts available to American statesmen when navigating the United States’ interaction with foreign nations. Addressing America expertly recaptures the Farewell Address’s place amongst these foundational texts and highlights its centrality to the formulation and transformation of their key components. Methodologically speaking, however, isolating the Address poses some challenges. Malanson is on firm ground when it comes to demonstrating the centrality of the Address to the occupants of the State Department and Executive. But this reviewer was left intrigued as to where exactly the Farewell Address stood in the political vocabulary of US policy and opinion makers. Was it a catalyst in the public celebrations and events Malanson highlights, or something appealed to from habit rather than principle? Does its invocation reveal more about the need to invoke Washington’s support than the specifics of the Address itself? Was it a stable touchstone for political commentators and partisan stump speakers, or only appealed to selectively?

  To take one instance, how did the Address interact with the pervasive Anglophobia that, as recently demonstrated so admirably by Sam Haynes, infused all aspects of antebellum America?(3) The jabs and feints with which the Farewell Address equipped orators seem technical and gentile in comparison to the bare-knuckle brawling of Anglophobes. Or was it that the subtlety of Washington’s Address, with its emphasis on cautious engagement with foreign powers, provided the key to navigating the tightrope between compromise and competition with the Union’s greatest threat? Bound up in this is another, more fundamental question. To what extent was the debate over the meaning of Washington’s Address a sub-plot of the wider contest over the meanings of independence and how best to recapture the spirit of the Revolution?

  These thoughts are not intended as broadsides against an invaluable study of Washington’s most quoted, but as Malanson shows, most misunderstood document. Yet they do indicate some recent developments in the field of antebellum foreign policy. First, scholarship on American foreign relations in the antebellum era is passing through a particularly fertile period since Kinley Brauer famously declared it ‘the Great American desert’ of American historiography in 1989.(4) Second, these questions emphasise that in this historiography, the focus of recent work has been on the wider cultural context in which foreign affairs were shaped rather than on the high political authors of policy who feature most prominently in Addressing America. The result has been a growing and diversifying chorus of voices – domestic opponents, newspaper columns, public orations, popular meetings, party gatherings, Congress, and the Cabinet – engaged in the creation of foreign policy. Addressing America is an engaging contribution to this discussion and a reminder that diplomatic historians are now central, and indispensable, to the recent historiography on the international connections of revolutionary and early national America.(5)

  Whether as the framework for understanding the republic’s foreign policy principles or as the compass for navigating turbulent relationships to foreign states, Addressing America makes a persuasive case that Washington’s valedictory advice proved a resilient document for Antebellum Americans. Concise and closely argued, Malanson’s volume will be vital reading for those interested in American conceptions of their republic’s role in international affairs.

  Notes
  Felix Gilbert, To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy (Princeton, NJ, 1961).Back to (1)
  Jay Sexton, The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America (New York, NY, 2011); David C. Hendrickson, Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate over International Relations (Lawrence, KS, 2009); David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Cambridge, MA and London, 2007).Back to (2)
  Sam Haynes, Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World (Charlottesville, VA and London, 2010).Back to (3)
  Kinley Brauer, ‘The great American desert revisited: recent literature and prospects for the study of American foreign relations, 1815–1861’, Diplomatic History, 13, 3 (1989), 395–417.Back to (4)
  This is a turnaround from almost 20 years ago, when Peter S. Onuf called for diplomatic historians to break out of the bounds of narrowly defined diplomatic history and play their part in the revision of the period, Peter S. Onuf, ‘A declaration of independence for diplomatic historians’, Diplomatic History, 22, 1 (Winter 1998), 71–83.Back to (5)

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