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Zach Fredman

Associate Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications


Teaching U.S. History in the World

Journal Article Modern American History · March 26, 2024 This is the second in a two-part Q&A series that explores the particular challenges and unique opportunities that historians face while researching, writing, and teaching American history outside the United States. To evaluate the diverse dynamics of teach ... Full text Cite

The Tormented Alliance American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949

Book · September 6, 2022 The first book to draw on archives from all of the areas in China where U.S. forces deployed during the 1940s, it examines the formation, evolution, and undoing of the alliance between the United States and the Republic of China during ... ... Cite

The U.S. Military's R&R Program in Taipei, 1965–1972

Chapter · 2022 Fire in the American lake: towards a regional turn in Vietnam War studies / Brian Cuddy and Fredrik Logevall -- British neocolonialism in Malaya and Singapore, and U.S. empire in the Pacific / Wen-Qing Ngoei -- Made in Britain: the fantasy ... ... Cite

Overseas Bases and Military Occupation in U.S. Foreign Relations

Chapter · March 4, 2020 This two-volume reference work presents a collection of historiographical essays by prominent scholars. ... Cite

The longer history of imperial incidents on the Yangtze

Journal Article Modern American History · March 1, 2020 Full text Open Access Cite

Military Occupations and Overseas Bases in Twentieth-Century U.S. Foreign Relations

Chapter · January 1, 2020 This chapter examines the role of overseas military bases and military occupations in twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations. Scholars from numerous disciplines have explored these topics, and despite diverse methodological and disciplinary approaches, t ... Full text Cite

GIs and 'Jeep Girls': Sex and American Soldiers in Wartime China

Journal Article Journal of Modern Chinese History · 2019 Open Access Cite

Shoring Up Iraq, 1983 to 1990: Washington and the Chemical Weapons Controversy

Journal Article Diplomacy and Statecraft · January 1, 2012 President Ronald Reagan's White House leaned toward Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq War because it sought to prevent an Iraqi defeat. Though the White House deemed Iraqi chemical weapons use abhorrent, it found the implications of an Iranian victory or expand ... Full text Open Access Cite