foreign correspondents

For American journalists abroad in the interwar period, it paid to have enthusiasm, openness, and curiosity, but not necessarily a world view.

Mystery sorrounds the life of alumnus Homer Smith, who spent decades on an international odyssey to find a freedom in a place he could call home.

The US is not Yugoslavia, but its struggles surrounding pluralism, nationalism, and an urban/rural divide parallel those Yugoslavia faced as it descended into chaos.

In 1932, Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

PBS NewsHour coverage of the hot wars of the Cold War.

The late telejournalist was a pioneer of informal diplomacy between American and Soviet citizens.

A revisionist view of the drug wars.

For pioneering journalist Bessie Beatty, women’s suffrage and the plight of labor were linked inextricably.