Beyond

A Filipino woman died after coming to the U.S. to be put on display at the 1904 World's Fair. A Smithsonian anthropologist likely took part of her brain.

South Korea is finally being held to account for the carnage its mercenary troops inflicted on Vietnamese civilians. No one seems to be reckoning with our complicity.

The American foreign policy sage was driven as much by pessimism about the US as antipathy to the Soviet Union.

The Truman administration launched a PR campaign to inflate casualty numbers to justify the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

On the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, we should remember that deploying the bomb wasn’t necessary to win the war.

American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.

A new book works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.

Sean Mirski terms the Monroe Doctrine “revolutionary” in his impressively erudite "We May Dominate the World."

Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Evian Conference in France in 1938, as the Holocaust loomed. It remains “an indelible stain on American and world history.”

The visa lottery reveals the inherent myths and contradictions at play in the US immigration system.

A feminist perspective on the first and only female prime minister of Israel.

"The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge"

Hawks may claim that uncompromising defense policies won the Cold War. But his pursuit of peace was more important.

All told, Arne overstayed his welcome at least four times — 1940, 1944, 1953 and 1954. It’s hard to say why.

Since 1823, when the Monroe Doctrine was first introduced to the world, the US has regarded Cuba as key to its designs for Latin America.

A revisionist view of the drug wars.

Across the Americas, emancipation moved slowly, and profited those who had benefited from slavery most.

With the emergence of the US as a global superpower in the twentieth-century, anti-Palestinian stereotypes in the media bled over to stigmatize Arab Americans.

Harry Washington fought for his enslaver's enemy during the American Revolution. Later, he migrated to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.

From the Spanish-American War to modern cocktail bars, the daiquiri has a long legacy entangled with US imperialism in the Caribbean.

Recently declassified documents have exposed former Mexican president José López Portillo as a CIA asset.

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life.

The man behind an iconic Vietnam War image captured ‘the ugliest events of our time.'

The invasion is still the most important foreign policy decision by a 21st century U.S. president, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.

A Civil War veteran, John William Boucher was one of the oldest men on the ground during the Great War.

The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.

Survivors of Kissinger's secret war in Cambodia reveal unreported mass killings.

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

Harry Truman used antisemitic slurs in private. But his surprise decision 75 years ago to recognize Israel, launching a fierce alliance, was a long time coming.

When it became clear that the United States and its allies couldn’t “liberate” Eastern Europe through psychological war and covert ops, they turned to sports.