Cliopatria welcomes David E. Kaiser to our circle. Professor Kaiser is a graduate of Harvard College and earned his doctorate in history at the University. He has taught both there and at Carnegie-Mellon University. A member of the faculty at the Naval War College, he is a visiting professor at Williams this year. Kaiser is the author of Economic Diplomacy and the Origins of the Second World War (Princeton UP, 1980); Postmortem: New Evidence in the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti, co-authored with William Young (UMassP, 1985); Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler (Harvard UP, 1990); Epic Season: The 1948 American League Pennant Race (UMassP, 1998); and American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Viet Nam War (Harvard UP, 2000). Currently, Professor Kaiser is at work on a book about Cuba, the United States, and assassination plots between 1959 and 1963. He blogs at History Unfolding. It is an honor to welcome him to Cliopatria.