Current Issue

Issue 4, January 2012

Editors’ Note

Benjamin Guterman
Terrance Rucker

Roger R. Trask Lecture

Crisis and Change: In the Company of Clio
Philip L. Cantelon

Research and Resources

Synchronizing Domestic and Foreign Policy Concerns: The Case of the 1980 Refugee Act
David W. Haines

The Promise of Policy History in the Public History Curriculum
Arnita A. Jones

Articles

GAS, GAS, GAS!: The Debate Over Chemical Warfare Between the World Wars
Christopher A. Warren

The Regulatory Dilemma of the Federal Power Commission, 1920–1977
Philip L. Cantelon

Pioneers of U.S. Military Cryptology: Colonel Parker Hitt and His Wife, Genevieve Young Hitt
Betsy Rohaly Smoot

The Cold War as Context
George C. Herring

“A Wet, Nasty Job”: Army Engineers and the Nicaragua Canal Survey of 1929–1931
Michael J. Brodhead

Contributors

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Federal History features scholarship on all aspects of the history and workings of the federal government, and of critical historical interactions between American society and the government, including the U.S. military, 1776 to the present. It also publishes articles examining contemporary issues and challenges in federal history work. The journal highlights the research of historians working in or for federal agencies as well as independent scholars.

For submissions or inquiries, e-mail the Federal History editors at:
editor-shfg-journal@shfg.org

ISSN 2163-8144    (print)
ISSN 1943–8036  (online)