Keylor Publishes Journal Paper on WWI Role of Congress
William Keylor, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent journal paper on the role that the United States Congress played during World War I.
Keylor has just published an article in the Revue D’Histoire Diplomatique, the journal of historians of foreign relations in France. The article was a contribution to a series titled “The Role of Parliaments in the Great War”, which included articles on the legislative bodies of the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany during World War I.
The translated title of Keylor’s article is “From Neutrality to War and Peace: The Evolution of the Role of the US Congress in the Conduct of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1914-1919.”
In the article, Keylor reviews the constitutional division of powers and checks and balances before analyzing the political struggles between the Congress and the President during the period of American neutrality and during the period of American participation in the war on the side of Great Britain and France. He finishes with a discussion of the role the United States Senate in defeating the treaties that President Wilson brought back with him after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Keylor served four consecutive terms as Chairman of the Department of History at Boston University (1988-2000) and has been Director of the International History Institute since 1999. At Boston University, he has received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Methodist Scholar-Teacher Award. Learn more about him here.