Beyond

Cold War America resettled unaccompanied minors as an anti-communist imperative. Today, the nation forgets this history.

Baby brokers often tricked Indigenous Mayan women into giving up newborns; kidnappers took others. International adoption is now seen as a cover for war crimes.

Who's to blame for failures in 2000, 2001 & 2008?

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

The president once said “Israel could get into a fistfight with this country and we’d still defend” it. That is now clearer than ever.

Laos was collateral damage in the U.S.' secret war. The wounds are visible in the land and in generations still waiting on justice.

The flag of Bikini Atoll looks a lot like the American flag. It has the same red and white stripes. The resemblance is intentional.

The first barbed wire border fences were proposed to keep out Chinese migrants. They’ve been debated for over a century.

The troubled history of the famous poinsettia plant.

Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.

Segregated lives of pride and peril on Firestone's Liberian plantations.

How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.

Henry Kissinger’s Vietnam diary shows that he knew the war was lost a decade before it ended.

A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.

In a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and newsrooms.

A historian of the Middle East examines how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state.

The primary sources on Kissinger’s controversial legacy.

Lauded for his strategic insights, the former secretary of state is better remembered for his callousness toward the victims of global conflict.

Fierce disagreements over Zionism have played out from the movement’s inception among Jews, including community leaders who worried it would spark antisemitism.

Many of the CIA analysts who spotted the earliest signs of al-Qaeda’s rise were female. They had trouble getting their warnings heard.

How America's failures in the Palestinian-Israeli crisis of the 1970s hurt U.S. security and contributed to the current war.

In contrast to feudal society, where everyone, lord or serf, remained rooted to the land, and words were ‘passed on'.

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup.

Justifying civilian casualties has a long history.

Long before Greenland’s shifting ice threatened sea level rise, it doomed one of the military’s most audacious Cold War projects.

From Jefferson's viewpoint, Native peoples could claim a title to their homelands, but they did not own that land as private property.

"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.

The relationship between the DJ and his MC derived from a Jamaican “toasting” tradition and its related “sound clash” culture.

A new book sorts through the fate of the leader of the fight for Congolese independence.