Beyond

Highest-level national security documents reveal a tough-minded, detail-oriented president.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.

Trump’s canal comments resurrect a forgotten American interest.

There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.

One speech permanently influenced American diplomacy—and not for the better.

Why should American exceptionalism end at the red-light district?

The decline of Southern industries paved the way for plantations in Fiji and Australia, where victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions.

After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s oldest, most direct ties to the Holy Land were established by a Palestinian Arab.

Starting with Obama, American presidents embraced the idea of arresting China’s rise, opening the door to Trump’s trade wars and hawkishness.

For decades, Houston families like mine have helped keep the flame of independence burning.

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century.

Quinn Slobodian and Jennifer Mittelstadt discuss their research on the meanings of “globalism” and “sovereignty” throughout history.

Charles Lindbergh’s ideology prefigured Donald Trump’s—and was rightly disgraced.

Those who draw a line from today to that infamous historical moment when democracy slid into authoritarianism are missing a key difference.

Haitians are caught between the grip of violent gangs and the messy legacies of foreign intervention.

Black people see what is happening to Palestinians, and many feel the tug of the familiar in their heart.

In assessing the rise of the global anti-democracy movement, the United States must look inward as well as outward.

The overlooked Creek War set the tone for America to come.

On the origins of America's hegemonic foreign policy.

History can make the U.S. better prepared for the specter of protracted large-scale ground combat, which has grown more real in the wake of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Kamala Harris called Iran a “destabilizing, dangerous force.” The appropriate context for this is the US’s own decades-long history of destabilizing Iran.

The U.S. military operated a Grand Turk missile tracking station for 30 years, with limited local benefits, highlighting American expansionism's impact.

On American history and the history of the word “America.”

Despite the Chinese Exclusion Act, about 300,000 Chinese gained admission to the U.S. between 1882 and 1943. How did they do it?

The history behind the country's role as a key American ally that also maintains warm relations with Iran and others.

Progressive forces in US labor took a stand in solidarity with trade unionists facing murderous repression in El Salvador.

While it is rare for foreign policy differences between the political parties to affect electoral outcomes, it has happened before.

A recent history revisits the Tokyo trial.