title: Genesis of the USA Foreign Policy: The American Historiography of the 1820-1850s
abstract: The article examines the views of the American authors of the 1820-1850s on genesis of the USA foreign policy. The study focuses on analyzing the views of G. Bancroft, T. Lyman Junior, J.-B. de Marigny, T. Pitkin, W. H. Trescot, R. Hildreth. Scientific originality of the paper lies in the fact that the paradigmatic analysis method is applied to systematize the researchers’ views, to reveal internal and external factors influencing these views, to evaluate the contribution of a certain author to 
journal: Manuscript