LAWRENCE KAPLAN

At this time of war when NATO has become a daily topic, my thoughts turned to this exceptional professor whose class was transformative in my understanding of U.S. History. I stumbled into his class, "Isolationism in America," by an accident of last-minute scheduling. My degree is not in history, but his lectures and readings challenged me to observe, question, and synthesize how our foreign policy ideals evolved from the nation's founding to present day. Dr. Kaplan continues to have an...