Beyond

Oliver North and his cronies in the Contra support operations put in motion a clandestine counter-intelligence apparatus to disrupt the flow of information.

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.

A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border.

An ongoing trial is bringing atrocities to light.

Innocent, passive, apolitical: after the Holocaust, the standard for ‘true’ victimhood has worked to justify total war.

A story about dogs used to fight in World War II and what became of them.

“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother… for big powerful America.”

The sight of the flag on January 6, 2021 has aroused curiosity and criticism. Missing, however, is the multiplicity of its symbolism to Vietnamese Americans.

Globalism is out. Nationalism is in. Progressives who think they can jump aboard are dangerously naive.

Mieke Kierkels and Chris Dickon have been collaborating on several projects to remember the sacrifices of African American soldiers during World War II.

Colonial lessons in civility from the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee.

History suggests that a more discreet American presence in Afghanistan will be a provocation rather than a source of security.

The Cold War may be over, but an arms race continues, even as safeguards once in place have fallen away.

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

In the Cold War, North Korean Communists invaded South Korea. President Truman’s decision to intervene had consequences that shape the world today.

A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.

Undocumented Black migrants struggle to have their asylum rights recognized in the United States. Groups have been asking President Biden to stop deportations.

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.

U.S. nuclear weapons testing displaced residents of the Marshall Islands. They're still fighting for justice for the devastation of their homeland and health.

Abolition in Africa brought longed-for freedoms, but also political turmoil, economic collapse and rising enslavement.

How Ivy Litvinov, the English-born wife of a Soviet ambassador, seduced America with wit, tea and soft diplomacy.

Declassified documents show the State Department had ample forewarning that a coup was being plotted, and that human rights violations would be committed.

Failures in prosecuting German businesses who profited in Nazi Germany show how far Europe and America were willing to go to protect capitalism.

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?

She also acted as a muse to artist Man Ray, with whom she briefly led a relationship.

The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.

Emilio Sanchez and the British government fought the lucrative business as American authorities looked the other way.

Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.

America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told.