Mary Barton is a historian with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Historical Office. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security at Dartmouth College's Dickey Center for International Understanding in August 2017.
Her research examines the development of modern counter-terrorism strategies and practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Barton has published articles in Diplomatic History and the Journal of British Studies.
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NOV 7, 2018 • Transcript
Education for Peace: The Living Legacy of the First World War
Four Fellows from Carnegie Council's "The Living Legacy of WWI" project present their research on different aspects of the war--counterterrorism, airpower, chemical warfare, and Latin ...
MAY 29, 2018 • Transcript
The Living Legacy of WWI: Counterterrorism Strategies in the War's Aftermath, with Mary Barton
"It is important to look at terrorism from a historical perspective, to understand where the term came from and to not see it as being ...