{"id":152,"date":"2009-09-29T06:31:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-09-29T06:31:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:31:31","slug":"john-adams-and-the-origins-of-american-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/john-adams-and-the-origins-of-american-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;John Adams and the Origins of American Diplomacy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Wesleyan University Professor of History W. Michael Weis will present \u201cJohn Adams and the Origins of American Diplomacy\u201d at 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 29, in Beckman Auditorium in The Ames Library. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Weis will speak on the significance of Adams as a founder of the U.S. diplomatic efforts across the Atlantic, including his work developing treaties and keeping the country out of war in the aftermath of the French Revolution. A specialist in U.S. foreign relations, Weis has been a member of the Illinois Wesleyan faculty since 1988.<\/p>\n<p>More information on this event is available in the full <a title=\"Weis lecture press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/CurrentNews\/newsreleases09\/fac_WeisAdamsLecture_00909.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a> by University Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Wesleyan University Professor of History W. Michael Weis will present \u201cJohn Adams and the Origins of American Diplomacy\u201d at 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 29, in Beckman Auditorium in The Ames Library. The event is free and open to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/john-adams-and-the-origins-of-american-diplomacy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[15,20,26],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ames-highlights","category-facultystaff","category-students","tag-exhibits","tag-history","tag-john-adams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}