Norman A. Graebner was a leading historian of American foreign relations who finished his distinguished career at UVA. Although one resists putting labels on scholars, Graebner can fairly be called a “realist” who emphasized American material-economic interests as the central explanatory factor in understanding U.S. foreign policy, rightly understood (and he thought American policymakers, especially in the twentieth century, too often got it wrong). Graebner edited Ideas and Diplomacy: Readings in the Intellectual Tradition of American Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 1964), which remains a most useful collection of key documents and texts.