Special Book Event with Charles Trueheart Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict Tuesday, October 14, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 PM DACOR Bacon House, 1801 F Street NW Please join us as ADST and DACOR host journalist and scholar Charles Trueheart for reflections on his recent book Diplomats...
THE ASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING and DACOR, An Organization of Foreign Affairs Professionals request the pleasure of your company as we celebrate ADST’s 40th anniversary with a reception to launch the 77th volume in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series: REPRESENTING AMERICA: Firsthand Accounts from A Century of U.S. Diplomacy. Edited by ROBIN...
The ADST’s latest release in the Diplomats and Diplomacy series—Profiles in Service: Peace Corps Roots in American Diplomacy—follows the throughline from participation in grassroots citizen exchange to challenges and achievements in highwire diplomacy. The featured individuals played a role in major global events of the last seven decades, from domestic school desegregation efforts in the...
ASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING requests the pleasure of your company at the reception for the opening of the exhibit in the Russell Rotunda: History of U.S. Diplomacy: From Its Beginnings to Today RSVP: [email protected] 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM on April 08, 2026 Russell Senate Office Building Room 325
ADST participated in this year’s AI+Expo Conference held from May 07 to May 09 at the Walter E. Washington Center in Washington, D.C. Organized by a non-partisan, non-profit organization SCSP.ai, the conference brought together leaders from government, private sector, academia, and student organizations for discussions about AI, emerging technologies, and national competitiveness. With more than...
At the annual meeting of the Society for History in the Federal Government, the ADST team presented a panel discussion on efforts to attract new audiences to our diplomatic oral history archive, including launch of the "Century of Service: Portraits of Diplomacy" initiative, publication of the anthology "Representing America," and development of the "Negottor" bot...
On June 9 at 6:30pm, we will be celebrating 30 years of the ADST-DACOR book program, the retirement of our amazing Margery Thompson who established and developed the program, and 40 years of ADST. Please join us in celebrating Margery’s achievement, the book program and ADST at forty. You can rsvp here.
Before there was a State Department, there was one guy in Paris with a mission: Benjamin Franklin, America’s first diplomat, sent to secure the French support that won us independence. That’s where this story starts. Join the Global Young Professionals for a first look at a national touring exhibit tracing 250 years of American diplomacy,...
Join the Montana World Affairs Council on Monday, September 14 with the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training for a special dinner and speaker series: A Century of Service: Diplomacy in a Changing World. This dinner & speaker series will be free to attend with limited seating.
UNC Global Affairs celebrates 250 years of American diplomacy, and the fifth anniversary of the Diplomacy Initiative, during Diplomacy Week 2026! This weeklong series of events takes place Monday, Sept. 28 through Friday, Oct. 2, and brings to campus diplomats and members of the national security community to celebrate the history of American diplomacy. UNC...