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Adams, Charles Francis, ed. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848. 12 vols. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1876.

John Quincy Adams (JQA) Digital Diary. Massachusetts Historical Society, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/publications/jqadiaries/.

Aikman, Rev. J. Logan. Cyclopedia of Christian Missions: Their Rise, Progress, and Present Position. London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1860.

Allen, David. India, Ancient and Modern. Geographical, Historical, Political, Social, and Religious; With a Particular Account of the State and Prospects of Christianity. 2nd ed. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856.

American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions. Annual Report. 110 vols. Boston, 1811–1920.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Manual for Missionary Candidates of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Boston: Press of Crocker and Brewster, 1845.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Maps of Missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Boston: The Board, 1898.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. On the Use of Missionary Maps at the Monthly Concert. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1842.

American College for Girls at Constantinople. The President’s Report to the Board of Trustees for the Year 1890–91. London: Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, 1891.

American Sunday-School Union. Missionary Manual: A Sketch of the History and Present State of Christian Missions to the Heathen. Designed to Accompany the Map of the World Published by the American Sunday-School Union. Revised edition. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1839.

Anderson, Rufus. A Heathen Nation Evangelized: History of the Sandwich Islands Mission. Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, 1870.

Anderson, Rufus. History of the Missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission to the Oriental Churches, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1. Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, 1872.

Anderson, Rufus. Memorial Volume of the First Fifty Years of the American Board. Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1861.

Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. The Second Annual Report of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. Philadelphia: Anderson and Meehan, 1816.

Benedetto, Robert, ed. Presbyterian Reformers in Central Africa: A Documentary Account of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Human Rights Struggle in the Congo, 1890–1918. New York: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Boston Athenaeum. Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum, 1807–1871. 5 vols. Boston: Boston Athenaeum: 1874–1882.

Boston Public Library, List of Books, Arranged by Authors, Titles, and Subjects. Boston: Boston Public Library, 1872.

Brown, Arthur Judson. The Foreign Missionary: An Incarnation of a World Movement. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1907.

Brown, Arthur Judson. The New Era in the Philippines. Nashville: Publishing House, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1903.

Brown, Arthur Judson. New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening. 2nd ed. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1904.

Brown, Arthur Judson. Memoirs of a Centenarian. Edited by William N. Wysham. New York: World Horizons, 1957.

Brown, Arthur Judson. Report of a Visitation of the Philippine Mission of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. New York: Printed for the Use of the Board and the Missions, 1902.

Brown, William A. The Why and How of Missions in the Sunday-School. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1916.

Burnet, D. S. The Jerusalem Mission: Under the Direction of the American Christian Missionary Society. Cincinnati: American Christian Publication Society, 1853.

Castle, Samuel Northrup. An Account of the Visit of the French Frigate l’Artemise to the Sandwich Islands, July 1839. Honolulu, 1839.

Dennis, James S. Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociological Study of Foreign Missions. Vol. 3. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1906.

Department of State. A Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States. Washington, DC: Printed by Jonathon Elliot, 1816.

Department of War. A Report of the Secretary of War, Containing the Reports of the Taft Commission, Its Several Acts of Legislation, and Other Important Information Relating to the Conditions and Immediate Wants of the Philippine Islands. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1901.

Dibble, Sheldon. History of the Sandwich Islands. Lahainaluna: Press of the Mission Seminary, 1843.

Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Missionary Record of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. March 1834.

Ecumenical Missionary Conference, New York, 1900. New York: American Tract Society, 1900.

Essex Institute. Books on China in the Library of Essex Institute: Essex Institute Special Catalogue No. 1. Salem, MA: Printed for the Essex Institute, 1895.

Evarts, Jeremiah. Cherokee Removal: The William Penn Essays and Other Writings, ed. Francis Paul Prucha. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

The Foreign Missions Convention of the United States and Canada. “Preliminary Announcement.” N.p., 1924.

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS). Office of the Historian, United States Department of State. Digital Edition. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments.

Gammell, William. A History of American Baptist Missions in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, Under the Care of the American Baptist Missionary Union. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854.

General Instructions to the Consuls and Commercial Agents of the United States. Prepared Under the Direction of the Department of State. Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1855.

Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. Peter Parley’s Geography for Beginners; with Eighteen Maps and One Hundred and Fifty Engravings. New York: Huntington and Savage, 1847.

Haines, Mrs. F.E.H. Jonas King, Missionary to Syria and Greece. New York: American Tract Society, 1879.

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster. In Memoriam, Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D.D., L.L.D. Boston: Published Privately, 1903.

Hamlin, Cyrus. My Life and Times, 4th ed. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1893.

[Jones, J. C.] Suppliment [sic] to the Sandwich Island Mirror containing an Account of the Persecution of the Catholics at the Sandwich Islands. Honolulu: R. J. Howard, Printer, 1840.

Knapp, Grace H. The Tragedy of Bitlis: Being Mainly the Narratives of Gisell M. McLaren and Myrtle O. Shane. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1919.

Lansing, Gulian. Egypt’s Princes: A Narrative of Missionary Labor in the Valley of the Nile. Philadelphia: William S. Rentoul, 1864.

Laurie, Thomas. The Ely Volume; or, The Contributions of our Foreign Missions to Science and Human Well-Being. Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1881.

Liggins, John. The Great Value and Success of Foreign Missions. Proved by Distinguished Witnesses: being the testimony of diplomatic ministers, consuls, naval officers, and scientific and other travelers in heathen and Mohammedan countries; together with that of English viceroys, governors, and military officers in India and in the British Colonies; also leading facts and late statistics of the missions. New York: Baker and Taylor, 1888.

Mattoon, Rev. Stephen. “An Address Delivered at Bangkok on the 4th of July, 1865. The 89th Anniversary of American Independence.” Bangkok: American Missionary Association, Published by request of American Residents, 1865.

McCartee, Divie Bethune. “Dr. McCartee’s Reminiscences.” The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal. Sept. 1, 1897: 403–409.

Memoir of Keopuolani, Late Queen of the Sandwich Islands. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1825.

Methodist Episcopal Church. Fortieth Annual Report of the Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Printed for the Society, 1859.

Missionary Ammunition for the Exclusive Use of Pastors, No. 4: The War Test. Prepared by a Committee of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, 1918.

Missionary Ammunition for the Exclusive Use of Pastors, No. 6: The Call to Foreign Missionary Service. Nashville: Executive Committee of Foreign Missions for the Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1919.

Missionary Ammunition for Pastors, No. 1: The Pastor as a World Leader. New York: Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1916.

Mitchell, Samuel Augustus. A System of Modern Geography: Comprising a Description of the Present State of the World, and Its Five Great Divisions: America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, with Their Several Empires, Kingdoms, States, Territories, etc.: Embellished by Numerous Engravings: Adapted to the Capacity of Youth: Accompanied by an Atlas Containing Thirty-Two Maps, Drawn and Engraved Expressly for This Work. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler and Co., 1860.

Morse, Jedidah. The American Universal Geography, or, a View of the Present State of all the Kingdoms, States and Colonies I the World. Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1812.

Morse, Jedidiah. Modern Atlas, Adapted to More’s New School Geography, Published According to an Act of Congress, by Richardson and Lord, No. 75, Cornhill Boston. Boston: J.H.A. Frost, 1822.

Near East College Association. Tourist Guide to Constantinople, Robert College and Constantinople Woman’s College. New York: Near East Colleges, 1923.

Newcomb, Harvey. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary Operations Throughout the World: with Geographical Descriptions, and Accounts of the Social, Moral, and Religious Condition of the People. New York: Charles Scribner, 1854.

Newcomb, Harvey. The Monthly Concert; with Facts and Reflections Suited to Awaken a Zeal for the Conversion of the World. Pittsburgh: Luke Loomis, 1836.

Perkins, Henry Martyn. Life of Justin Perkins, DD: Pioneer Missionary to Persia. Chicago: Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, 1887.

Perkins, Justin. A Residence of Eight Years in Persia, among the Nestorian Christians: With Notices of the Muhammedans. Andover, MA: Allen, Morrill and Wardwell, 1843.

Pond, Enoch. Short Missionary Discourses, or Monthly Concert Lectures. Worcester: Dorr and Howland, 1824.

Presbyterian Church in the USA. The Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. New York: Published for the Board at the Mission House, 1859.

Rankin, Henry William. “The Hour of China and the United States.” The Bibliotheca Sacra 56 (July 1899): 561–578.

Rankin, William Henry. “Political Values of the American Missionary.” American Journal of Sociology 13, no. 2 (September 1907): 145–182.

Religious Toleration in Egypt: Official Correspondence Relating to the Indemnity Obtained for the Maltreatment of Faris-el-Hakim, an Agent of the American Missionaries in Egypt: Reprinted from Published Official Documents. London: Warrington, Printer, 1862.

Rockhill, William W. Appendix. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1901. Affairs in China. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1902.

Roosevelt, Theodore, Papers. Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library.

Seward, George Frederick. The United States Consulates in China: A Letter, with Inclosures of the Consul-General in China to the Secretary of State. Printed for Private Circulation, 1867.

Seward, Olive Risley, ed. William H. Seward’s Travels Around the World. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876.

Sheppard, William H. Presbyterian Pioneers in Congo. Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee on Publication, 1917.

Shewmaker, Kenneth, ed. The Papers of Daniel Webster, Diplomatic Papers. 2 vols. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College by the University Press of New England, 1983–1987.

Síocháin, Séamas Ó S, and Michael O’Sullivan, eds. The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement’s Congo Report and 1903 Diary. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2003.

Smith, Eli, and H. G. O. Dwight. Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H.G.O. Dwight in Armenia. Boston, 1833.

Smith, Egbert W. How the Battle Goes. Nashville: Executive Committee Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church in the US, 1918.

Speer, Robert E., ed. A Missionary Pioneer in the Far East: A Memorial of Divie Bethune McCartee, For More Than Fifty Years a Missionary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the USA. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1922.

State Department. Diplomatic and Consular Service of US. Proquest Congressional. 1828–1909. https://congressional-proquest-com.proxy2.cl.msu.edu/congressional/docview/t66.d71.s107a-2.4?accountid=12598.

State Department. Dispatches from U.S. Consular Officers, 1789–1906. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/302031.

Stewart, Charles S. Private Journal of a Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and Residence at the Sandwich Islands in the Years 1822, 1823, 1824, and 1825. New York: John P. Haven, 1828.

Taft, William H. The Church and Our Government in the Philippines: An Address Delivered before the Faculty and Students of the University of Notre Dame, October 5, 1904. Notre Dame, IN: The University Press, 1904.

Taylor, Fitch W. A Voyage Round the World, and Visits to Various Foreign Countries, in the United States Frigate Columbia. New Haven: H. Mansfield, 1848.

Turner, Fennell P., and Frank Knight Sanders, eds. The Foreign Missions Convention at Washington, 1925. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1925.

Underwood, Lillias. Fifteen Years Among the Top-Knots; or, Life in Korea. Boston: American Tract Society, 1908.

Wanless, William James. The Medical Mission: Its Place, Power, and Appeal. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1898.

Webster, Daniel. Diplomatic and Official Papers of Daniel Webster, While Secretary of State. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848.

Wells, Ida B. A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892–1893–1894. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1895.

Whipple, Charles K. Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery. Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1861.

Williams, Charles. The Missionary Gazetteer, Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account of the Various Stations of the Church, London, Moravian, Wesleyan, Baptist, and American, Missionary Societies, etc., with Their Progress in Evangelization and Civilization. London: F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1828.

Williams, Frederick Wells. The Life and Letters of Samuel Wells Williams, LLD: Missionary, Diplomatist, Sinologue. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1888.

Williams, H. F. In Four Continents: A Sketch of the Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1910.

Williams, Samuel Wells. Chinese Immigration. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1879.

Williams, Samuel Wells. The Middle Kingdom; A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants. With a New Map of the Empire. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1848.

Williams, Samuel Wells. Our Relations with the Chinese Empire. San Francisco: 1877.

Williams, Samuel Wells, and Frederick Wells Williams. A History of China: Being the Historical Chapters from The Middle Kingdom, with a Concluding Chapter Narrating Recent Events. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897.

Woodrow Wilson, Papers, Digital Edition. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2017. https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/WILS-01-65-02-0332.

Secondary Sources

Ahn, Katherine H. Lee. Awakening the Hermit Kingdom: Pioneer American Women Missionaries in Korea. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2009.

Alexander, Nathan G. “E. D. Morel (1873–1924), The Congo Reform Association, and the History of Human Rights.” Britain and the World 9, no. 2 (2016): 213–235.

Ambrosius, Lloyd E. Wilsonian Statecraft: Theory and Practice of Liberal Internationalism during World War I. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1991.

Andrew, John. A. From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.

Apilado, Mariano C. Revolutionary Spirituality: A Study of the Protestant Role in the American Colonial Rule of the Philippines. Quezon City, Philippines: New Day, 1999.

Arens, William. The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Arista, Noelani. The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawai‘i and the Early United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Au, Sokhieng. “Medical Orders: Catholic and Protestant Missionary Medicine in the Belgian Congo, 1880–1940.” Low Countries Historical Review 132, no. 1 (2017): 62–82.

Batson, Benjamin A. “American Diplomats in Southeast Asia in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Siam.” Journal of the Siam Society 64 (July 1978): 39–112.

Bays, Daniel H., and Grant Wacker, eds. The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003.

Blaakman, Michael, Emily Conroy-Krutz, and Noelani Arista, eds. The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.-Mexican War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.

Blackler, Adam A. An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa. State College: Penn State University Press, 2022.

Blowers, Paul M. “‘Living in a Land of Prophets’: James Barclay and an Early Disciples of Christ Mission to Jews in the Holy Land.” Church History 62, no. 4 (December 1993): 494–513.

Boonshoft, Mark. Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Borgwardt, Elizabeth, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston, eds. Rethinking American Grand Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Brückner, Martin. The Social Life of Maps. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Burnidge, Cara Lea. A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Carpenter, Teresa. The Miss Stone Affair: America’s First Modern Hostage Crisis. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

Carton, Benedict. “From Hampton ‘Into the Heart of Africa’: How Faith in God and Folklore Turned Congo Missionary William Sheppard into a Pioneering Ethnologist.” History in Africa 36 (2009): 53–86.

Chang, Gordon H. “Whose ‘Barbarism’? Whose ‘Treachery’? Race and Civilization in the Unknown United States–Korea War of 1871.” Journal of American History 89, no. 4 (March 2003): 1331–1365.

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Chin, Carol C. Modernity and National Identity in the U.S. and East Asia, 1895–1919. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2010.

Chung, Mee-Hyun. “Her Name Was Lillias Horton Underwood: Revisiting Her Multidimensional Works.” International Review of Missions 109, no. 1 (May 2020): 56–71.

Clay, Dean. “‘David vs Goliath’: The Congo Free State Propaganda War, 1890–1909.” International History Review 43, no. 3 (2021): 457–474.

Clay, Dean. “Transatlantic Dimensions of the Congo Reform Movement.” English Studies in Africa 59, no. 1 (2016): 18–28.

Clyde, Paul Hibbert. “Frederick F. Low and the Tientsin Massacre.” Pacific Historical Review 2, no. 1 (March 1933): 100–108.

Clymer, Kenton. Protestant Missionaries in the Philippines, 1898–1916: An Inquiry into the American Colonial Mentality. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Cohen, Paul A. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. Rev. ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Cohen, Warren I. East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Conroy-Krutz, Emily. Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Cureau, Harold G. “William H. Sheppard: Missionary to the Congo, and Collector of African Art.” Journal of Negro History 67, no. 4 (winter 1982): 340–352.

Curtis, Heather. Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Daggar, Lori. Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.

Dogan, Mehmet Ali, and Heather J. Sharkey, eds. American Missionaries in the Middle East: Foundational Encounters. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011.

Duus, Peter. The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895–1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Dworkin, Ira. Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Edel, Charles. Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Elder, Earl Edgar. Vindicating a Vision: The Story of the American Mission in Egypt, 1854–1954. Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, 1958.

Esherick, Joseph W. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Ewans, Martin. European Atrocity, African Catastrophe: Leopold II, the Congo Free State, and Its Aftermath. New York: Routledge Curzon, 2002.

Fairbank, John K., ed. The Missionary Enterprise in China and America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Fea, John. The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Fitz, Caitlin. Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions. New York: Liveright, 2016.

Foliard, Daniel. The Violence of Colonial Photography. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2023.

Georgini, Sara. Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Ghazvinian, John. America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Gleeson, Kristin L. “The Stethoscope and the Gospel: Presbyterian Foreign Medical Missions, 1840–1900.” American Presbyterians 71, no. 2 (summer 1993): 127–138.

Gorman, Henry. “American Ottomans: Protestant Missionaries in an Islamic Empire’s Service, 1820–1919.” Diplomatic History 43, no. 3 (2019): 544–568.

Grabill, Joseph L. Protestant Diplomacy and the Near East: Missionary Influence on American Policy, 1810–1927. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971.

Grant, Kevin. A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884–1926. New York: Routledge, 2014.

Greenberg, Amy. A Wicked War: Clay, Polk, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. New York: Vintage, 2013.

Gulick, Edward V. Peter Parker and the Opening of China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.

Haddad, John R. America’s First Adventure in China: Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013.

Haddad, John R. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776–1876. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Hall, Catherine, and Sonya O. Rose, eds. At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Hankins, Barry. Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Harris, Paul William. Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Hayford, Charles. “China by the Book: China Hands and China Stories, 1848–1949.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 16, no. 4 (winter 2009): 285–311.

Hershberger, Mary. “Mobilizing Women, Anticipating Abolition: The Struggle against Indian Removal in the 1830s.” Journal of American History 86, no. 1 (June 1999): 15–40.

Herzog, Ben, and Ediberto Román. Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror. New York: NYU Press, 2015.

Heyrman, Christine. American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam. New York: Hill and Wang, 2015.

Hill, Kimberly. A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2020.

Ho, Joseph W. Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022.

Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Hoganson, Kristin. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Hoganson, Kristin L., and Jay Sexton, eds. Crossing Empires: Taking US History into Transimperial Terrain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.

Hollinger, David. Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Hutchison, William R. Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Hutchison, William R. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism. Reprint ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992.

Hyde, Carrie. Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of US Citizenship. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Irwin, Julia F. Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Jacobs, Sylvia. The African Nexus: Black American Perspectives on the European Partitioning of Africa, 1880–1920. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Jacobs, Sylvia, ed. Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Jakobsen, Janet R., and Ann Pellegrini, eds. Secularisms. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

Johnson, R. Park. “The Legacy of Arthur Judson Brown.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 10, no. 2 (April 1, 1986): 71–75.

Jones, Jeannette Eileen, In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884–1936. Athens: University of Georgia Pres, 2010.

Kark, Ruth. American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832–1914. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994.

Karp, Matthew. This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Pres, 2018.

Kelley, Mary. Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Kennedy, Charles S. The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular Service, 1776–1924, Rev. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2015.

Kenny, Gale, and Tisa Wenger. “Church, State, and ‘Native Liberty’ in the Belgian Congo.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 62, no. 1 (2020): 156–185.

Killingray, David, “The Black Atlantic Missionary Movement and Africa, 1780s-1920s.” Journal of Religion in Africa 33, no. 1 (2003): 3–31.

Kramer, Paul. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Kühnel, Bianca, Galit Noga-Banai, and Hanna Vorholt. Visual Constructs of Jerusalem. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2014.

Laderman, Charlie. Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Lagergren, David. Mission and State in the Congo: A Study of the Relations Between Protestant Missions and the Congo Independent State Authorities with Special Reference to the Equator District, 1885–1903. Translated by Owen N. Lee. Lund, Sweden: Gleerup, 1970.

Lazich, Michael. “American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in 19th Century China.” Journal of World History 17, no. 2 (June 2006): 197–223.

Lazich, Michael C. E. C. Bridgman, 1801–1861: America’s First Missionary to China. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

Littell, John B. “Missionaries and Politics in China—The Taiping Rebellion.” Political Science Quarterly 43, no. 2 (December 1928): 566–599.

Lord, Donald C. “Missionaries, Thai, and Diplomats.” Pacific Historical Review 35, no. 4 (November 1966): 413–431.

Magee, Malcolm. What the World Should Be: Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008.

Makdisi, Ussama. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.

Malcolm, Elizabeth L. “The Chinese Repository and Western Literature on China, 1800 to 1850.” Modern Asian Studies 7, no. 2 (March 1973): 165–178.

Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Movement: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Mayer, Christine, and Adelina Arredondo, eds. Women, Power Relations, and Education in a Transnational World. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

McAlister, Melani. The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

McCartney, Paul T. “Religion, the Spanish-American War, and the Idea of American Mission.” Journal of Church and State 54, no. 2 (spring 2012): 257–278.

McCullough, Matthew. The Cross of War: Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-America War. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

McLoughlin, William G. Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

McLoughlin, William G. Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789–1839. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Meyer-Fong, Tobie. What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.

Mills, Brandon. The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

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