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The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for a CIA-backed 1953 coup and the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

College professors were vital in the fight to win WWII, lending their time and research to building bombs to creating effective wartime propaganda.

During the Cold War, the AFL-CIO actively participated in efforts to suppress left-wing labor movements abroad.

The long history of confusions, misconceptions, and miscalculations in the relationship between the US and Iraq, from 1979 to 2003.

It's a great story. The only problem is that the whole thing is probably made up.

Who can migrate to the US and make their home here? Who gets to drop US-made bombs, and who is expected to suffer them? These are not unrelated questions.

Why the far right embraces foreign tyrants.

How a now-obscure financier turned the Bahamas into a tax haven—and created a cornerstone of global plutocracy.

How the U.S. created a new kind of managed and political monetary system in the wake of World War I.

According to authors of a new book on how Iran has coped with economic sanctions imposed by the U.S., no one does.

As Chinese migrants arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, politicians are reviving old anti-Chinese rhetoric that has done lasting harm.

In 2024, the U.S. faces some of the same challenges in the region that it did in 1954.

What was the Popular Front? Where did it come from, and where did its energies go?

Al Cantello, a star of the U.S. track and field team, arranged a covert meeting between a government agent and a Ukrainian long jumper.

Did music really bring down the Wall?

The convergence of economy and politics in the Sino-US relationship via Jonathan Chatwin’s “The Southern Tour” and Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson’s “Made in China.”

It has suddenly become popular to cast NATO as the first benign military alliance in history, without concealed politics.

U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations. But are they doing more harm than we realize?

Photographs of wild flowers taken by photographers from a Christian utopian community that settled in East Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century.

Black internationalism broadened our politics of solidarity.

The D-Day landings turned the tide of the war, but their success rested on the uncertain calculations of Allied meteorologists.

Seventeenth-century maps and conflicts in colonial New England.

How Europe reacted when Ethiopia tried to join the famed global sporting tradition at the 1924 Paris Olympics.

We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. But it’s time to take off the eye patch.

70 years since President Árbenz was ousted for standing up to Chiquita, the firm might finally be held to account for its ties to a far-right paramilitary group in Colombia.

The histories of the U.S. and Czechia are linked by multiple presidents of both countries.

Estimating life and death in Iraq and Gaza.

In a momentous couple of years, the young United States added more than a million square miles of territory, including Texas and California. 

The North’s fruitful partnership with Liberian farmers fueled a steady supply of an essential beverage.

Bill Trueheart's battles with friend and fellow Foreign Service officer Fritz Nolting illustrate the American tragedy in Southeast Asia.