{"id":5025,"date":"2013-02-13T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/?post_type=profile&p=5025"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:11:11","slug":"david-a-mayers","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/profile\/david-a-mayers\/","title":{"rendered":"David A. Mayers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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History of International Relations, History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Political Biography, American Civil War<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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David Mayers holds a joint appointment in the History and Political Science Departments. His primary area of teaching\/research interest is the history of US foreign relations\/international politics and the American Civil War. His principal books are George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy<\/i>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 1988), The Ambassadors and America\u2019s Soviet Policy<\/i>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 1995, Douglas Dillon prize from the American Academy of Diplomacy), Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991<\/i>\u00a0(St. Martin\u2019s Press, 1998), Dissenting Voices in America\u2019s Rise to Power<\/i>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2007), FDR\u2018s Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis<\/i>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2013), America and the Postwar World: Remaking\u00a0International Society, 1945-1956<\/i>\u00a0(Routledge, 2018), Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941 <\/i>(Cambridge University Press, 2026). The tentative title \u00a0of his book-in-progress is \u00a0Where the Grapes of Wrath Are Stored: The United States, 1852<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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