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Demonstrators protesting Trump's immigration policy toward Muslims outside the Supreme Court.

Human Rights in the Era of Trump

The era of Trump could mark the recovery in American civil society of the moral and political power of global human rights.
by Mark Philip Bradley via Perspectives on History on January 31, 2017
Prince Wichaichan, also known as Prince George Washington

George Washington at the Siamese Court

Keen to appear outward-looking and open to Western culture, in 1838 the Second King of Siam bestowed upon his son a most unusual name.
by Ross Bullen via The Public Domain Review on April 21, 2016

History’s True Warning

How our misunderstanding of the Holocaust offers moral cover for the geopolitical disasters of our time.
by Timothy Snyder via Slate on September 23, 2015

'The Greatest Catastrophe the World Has Seen'

Considering six books on the outbreak of World War I and its place in history.
by R. J. W. Evans via New York Review of Books on February 6, 2014

The International Chemical Weapons Taboo

Our horror of chemical agents is one of the great success stories of modern diplomacy.
by Richard Price via Boston Globe on September 8, 2013
Muammar Gaddafi during the 12th AU Summit in February 2009

Regime Change Doesn’t Work

History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.
by Alexander B. Downes via Boston Review on September 26, 2011

Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History

How does the global effort to eradicate smallpox fit into the history of U.S.-Soviet relations?
by Erez Manela via Diplomatic History on March 5, 2010
A frayed and torn American flag flying on a flag pole.

Farewell, the American Century

Rewriting the past by adding in what's been left out.
by Andrew J. Bacevich, Tom Engelhardt via Tom Dispatch on April 28, 2009
Prescott Bush, Dorothy Bush, and George H. W. Bush at the White House.

How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power

Rumors of a link between Prescott Bush and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. They were right.
by Duncan Campbell via The Guardian on September 25, 2004

Mrs. Roosevelt's Revolution

In the wake of the Second World War, Eleanor Roosevelt seized the moment and gave lasting life to the idea of universal human rights.
by Brian Urquhart via New York Review of Books on April 26, 2001
American military trucks on a Baghdad street.

The Iraq Project

Documenting U.S. policy toward Iraq for more than two decades.
via National Security Archive on January 1, 1994
Screen capture of Carter at a podium giving his human right speech to university graduates.

Jimmy Carter Promotes Human Rights

Carter’s speech lays out his commitment to implement human rights into U.S. foreign policy.
via Voices & Visions on May 22, 1977
A photograph of Henry A. Crabb.

Henry A. Crabb, Filibuster, and the San Diego Herald

A Californian politician's disastrous expedition to seize Mexican land, and how newspapers spun the story.
by Diana Lindsay via San Diego History Center on January 1, 1973
Black-and-white portrait of Fidel Castro looking down with his hand near his ear.

I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK Was Assassinated

A first-person account of Fidel Castro during a monumental moment in history.
by Jean Daniel via The New Republic on December 7, 1963
Screenshot of JFK's televised address.

President Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Oval Office Address

In response to the build-up of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, JFK ordered a quarantine of the island and military surveillance missions.
via C-SPAN on October 22, 1962
Harry Truman and David Dubinsky at a podium with an ABC microphone.

Radio Report to the American People on the Potsdam Conference

Truman’s radio address on August 9, 1945 frames Hiroshima as a “military base” to justify its bombing.
by Harry S. Truman via Truman Library on August 9, 1945
George Washington with an overlay of the American Flag

George Washington’s Foreign Policy Was Built on Respect for Other Nations

Washington believed that civility toward other nations was a strategy to preserve independence, not a concession.
by Maurizio Valsania via The Conversation on January 9, 2026
British raid on the Chesapeake during the War of 1812.

Lies We Learned: America Won the War of 1812

How American history has valorized a draw.
by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on January 3, 2026
Francis Gary Powers holding a model U-2 plane.
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Unforgettable Fire: The U-2 Incident

Reports on the May 1960 downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union offer a case study in Cold War posturing and misdirection.
by Matthew Wills, John A. Schell via JSTOR Daily on December 26, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein and unidentified African soldiers.

Epstein, Israel, and the CIA: How The Iran–Contra Planes Landed at Les Wexner’s Base

Jeffrey Epstein helped Leslie Wexner repurpose the CIA’s Iran–Contra planes from arms smuggling to shipping lingerie.
by Ryan Grim, Harrison Berger, Murtaza Hussein via The American Conservative on December 19, 2025
Political cartoon depicting the Monroe Doctrine as a fence keeping Germans and British out of the Americas.

The Monroe Doctrine in 2025

A refresher on the original intent of John Quincy Adams's 1823 policy statement in the wake of the recent announcement of the "Trump Corollary."
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Imperfect Union on December 15, 2025
Map of the frontier of the Northern Colonies in mid 1700s.

The New Dominion: Virginia's Bounty Land

In 1774 Virginia surveyors risked frontier war to claim western lands for veterans, exposing land hunger, imperial ambition, and Native conflict.
by Gabriel Neville via Journal of the American Revolution on December 4, 2025
Murray Rothbard

It Has Always Been About Foreign Policy

Movement conservatism’s excommunications have always centered on one set of issues.
by David Brady via The American Conservative on November 30, 2025
Ely S. Parker

Ely Parker’s Ambivalent Legacy

On U.S.-American Indian treaty-making and Ely Parker's role in its abolition.
by Michael Leroy Oberg via Native America: A History on November 20, 2025
Don Francisco de Saavedra

Francisco de Saavedra and the Silver of Havana

The silver raised in Havana helped finance the Yorktown campaign, revealing the imperial foundations of American independence.
by José A. Adrián via Not Even Past on September 24, 2025
A young Donald Trump tosses an apple into the air.

When Trump's Brain Broke

Donald Trump seems stuck in the 80s.
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on August 21, 2025
John McCain stands in a crowd shaking hands in a Ukrainian city.

How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.
by Michael A. Reynolds via Compact on August 15, 2025
Poster of the first issue stamp celebrating the Mendez v. Westminster School District case.
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Mendez v. Westminster and Mexican American Desegregation

International relations and foreign influence helped end legal segregation of Mexican American students in California after World War II.
by Matthew Wills, Jennifer McCormick via JSTOR Daily on August 10, 2025
Cartographic depiction of the Union armies Anaconda plan shows a snake wrapping around the American South.

The President's Awesome War Powers

Where they come from, how they've evolved, and how they could change.
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Imperfect Union on July 15, 2025
Collage of James Madison writing, Justice Scalia speaking, White House and Constitution.

Putting the "Executive" in “Unitary Executive”

We cannot divorce the independence of the executive branch from its substance.
by John Yoo via Law & Liberty on June 18, 2025
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