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- The Founding Era
- Diplomacy and Revolution
- The Early Republic
- Securing the Republic
- The Antebellum Period
- The Civil War
- The Age of Imperialism
- Into the Twentieth Century
- The First World War
- The Interwar Period
- World War II
- The Cold War
- Bi-Polar Foreign Policy
- Entangling Alliances
- Détente
- Quest for Peace
- Cold War Denouement
- Toward the Twenty-First Century
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Department History
Travels of the Secretary
By Secretary
- William Henry Seward (1861-1869)
- John Milton Hay (1898-1905)
- Elihu Root (1905-1909)
- Philander Chase Knox (1909-1913)
- Robert Lansing (1915-1920)
- Bainbridge Colby (1920-1921)
- Charles Evans Hughes (1921-1925)
- Frank Billings Kellogg (1925-1929)
- Henry Lewis Stimson (1929-1933)
- Cordell Hull (1933-1944)
- Edward Reilly Stettinius (1944-1945)
- James Francis Byrnes (1945-1947)
- George Catlett Marshall (1947-1949)
- John Foster Dulles (1953-1959)
- Christian Archibald Herter (1959-1961)
- David Dean Rusk (1961-1969)
- William Pierce Rogers (1969-1973)
- Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger (1973-1977)
- Cyrus Roberts Vance (1977-1980)
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1980-1981)
- Alexander Meigs Haig (1981-1982)
- George Pratt Shultz (1982-1989)
- James Addison Baker (1989-1992)
- Warren Minor Christopher (1993-1997)
- Madeleine Korbel Albright (1997-2001)
- Colin Luther Powell (2001-2005)
- Condoleezza Rice (2005-2009)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (2009-)
By Destination
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Bosnia
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Burma
- Byelorussia
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Ceylon
- Chile
- China
- China, People’s Republic of
- Colombia
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Costa Rica
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia
- Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)
- Denmark
- Denmark (Greenland)
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Georgia
- German Democratic Republic
- Germany
- Germany, Federal Republic of
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kirghizia
- Korea, North
- Korea, Republic of
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyz Republic
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Netherlands Antilles
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestinian Authority
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- People's Republic of China
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Republic of China
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Serbia-Montenegro (Kosovo)
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- St. Lucia
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- U.S.S.R.
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Western Samoa
- Yemen
- Yugoslavia
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe