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John Holladay Latané

1869–1932

A leading early 20th-century historian of American diplomacy, this Virginia-born scholar helped explain how the United States stepped onto the world stage. His books brought foreign policy and national history to a broad readership.

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The United States and Latin America

The United States and Latin America

by John Holladay Latané

From Isolation to Leadership, Revised

From Isolation to Leadership, Revised

by John Holladay Latané

About the author

Born in 1869, John Holladay Latané became known as an American historian whose work focused especially on U.S. foreign relations and the country’s rise as a world power.

He taught history at Johns Hopkins University and wrote widely used books including A History of American Foreign Policy, America as a World Power, 1897–1907, and A History of the United States. His writing helped shape how students and general readers understood diplomacy, expansion, and the international role of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Latané died in 1932. A small archival image of him appears in the University of Chicago Photographic Archive, but no clearly suitable larger portrait image could be confirmed from the sources reviewed here.