Beyond

The US imperialist wars in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan grew from US wars against Indigenous people in the 19th century.

As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.

Could the separation of the Revolutionary War have been patched in the late 19th century? Some powerful men tried...

By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.

What happened on January 6 was profoundly American, emerging as it did from our long and very specific history. No one did this to us.

How decolonisation propelled the growth of low-tax jurisdictions, with lasting economic implications for former colonies.

Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.

How the United States terrorizes the rest of the world, Baldwin realized abroad, echoed how it terrorized its inhabitants at home.

Pandemics can only be contained through organized collaboration and cooperative diplomacy.

After World War II, American power on the world stage was defined by internationalism and cooperation.

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.

Katherine Fite and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, 1945.

The era of anti-fascist struggle was a crucial moment for Black radicals of all stripes.

World War I was a catastrophic, barbaric conflict that left tens of millions of people dead and set the stage for anti-democratic rollbacks for years to come.

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

A new book explains how U.S. political elites sold the UN to the public as a route to global peace, while all along wanting it as a cover for militarization.

From Vincent Brown's Cundill Prize-nominated "Tacky’s Revolt."

In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.

On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.

Until the 1600s, Spain, France and Portugal were much bigger players in the settlement of the New World.

A comparative look at the U.S. and Peru's emancipation proclamations' nuances in declaring the freedom of enslaved peoples.

A U.S. intelligence officer reflects on the moral corruption of an open-ended occupation.

What happened to the last million Eastern Europeans in refugee camps in Germany, who refused to return home, or who had no home to return to.

A history of inflammatory illness epithets.

Richard J. Werther discusses how being outmanned by the best army in the world led American revolutionaries to look overseas for the help they needed.

Since its emergence in the middle of the twentieth century, the American Empire has been fueled by the search for an enemy.

Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first nation in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly, on September 4, 1970.

It’s hard to imagine having more direct control over a foreign country’s political system — short of a straight-up military occupation.

In Guatemala, the CIA hired an American actor and two radio DJs to oust a president.

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.