Story of Diplomacy
From D-Day to the U.S. Foreign Service: Lt. Col. Karl F. Mautner
Karl Mautner was a Jewish Austrian who became a U.S. soldier in WWII, a U.S. citizen, and a U.S. Foreign Service Officer.
Interwar Period and WWII (1919-1945)
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Book Gifted to Richard Schifter
As a young boy in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s, Richard Schifter would often walk with his father past the Austrian Consular Academy. Richard would tell his parents that one day he wanted to be a diplomat. One time, his father pulled him aside and explained, “We are Jews. Jews can't get…
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Diplomacy Classroom: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy
Human rights has not always been a foreign policy priority. However, over the past 100 years, human rights have become a growing part of foreign…
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Story of Diplomacy
The Declaration Heard ‘Round the World
The 1776 Declaration of Independence is one of the most universally well-known historical documents. American diplomats continue to promote the democratic values enshrined in its…
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Race, Citizenship, and Red Scares: Robert Robinson and Foreign Service Officer Bill Davis
When U.S. citizens travel abroad with their official documents, like visas and passports, they expect to be able to travel freely. And they also expect…
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Ledger of Passport Renewals, USSR
This State Department ledger records information about the issuance and renewal of passports for Americans living in or traveling to the Soviet Union (USSR), including details of specific individuals' cases, dating from 1926 through the late 1930s. The case of Robert N. Robinson, an African American engineer who ended up trapped in…
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Resident Officer Handbook
“Resident Officer Handbook” given to U.S. Foreign Service Officers of the class of 1950, who were sent to Germany to aid in transitioning from the post-war U.S. Military government to a civilian German government.
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Men’s Fedora
Special Agent Frank J. Madden served with the State Department's Office of Security from January 1942 until 1971. He served on personal protective details for three U.S. Secretaries of State (Acheson, Dulles and Herter) and countless visits by high-level foreign dignitaries, such as the Shah of Iran and the King of Morocco.…
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Photo of Near East Division's Christmas Party
Taken on December 23, 1945, this is a staff photo of the Department of State’s Near East Division while they gathered for a Christmas party. Loy W. Henderson, who was known as “Mr. Foreign Service” during the latter part of his long career, is pictured in the front row third from right.…
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Hulda Enebuske's Passport
Issued to Hulda Ingejärd Enebuske (“Euebuske” on the passport) in April 1918, this passport lists her destination as France and the reason for her travel as “Service with Harvard Surgical Unit”. At the bottom left, under her physical description, her occupation is listed as “nurse” – which her photograph, in a nurse’s…
