Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. This book is a history of U.S. foreign relief efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly during the First World War era. It traces how the U.S. government first began to use overseas aid as a tool of its statecraft, analyzing the political and strategic goals behind American foreign assistance efforts. This book also examines how U.S. citizens and voluntary organizations engaged in these humanitarian initiatives, exploring their role in international affairs and cultural diplomacy during this era.

The doctoral dissertation on which Making the World Safe is based was awarded the 2011 Betty M. Unterberger Prize for the best dissertation in diplomatic history from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

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