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Charles Beard: Punished for Seeking Peace

His reputation was savaged because he had the temerity to question the 'Good War' narrative.

by Andrew J. Bacevich via The American Conservative on March 21, 2019

Geopolitics for the Left

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

by Ted Fertik via n+1 on March 11, 2019

The Toxic Legacy of the Korean War

The Korean War upended the constitutional balance of war powers. It has been cited by presidents ever since.

by Mary L. Dudziak via Washington Post on March 1, 2019

How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days

The first episode of NPR's new history podcast tells the story of a 1953 coup that set the stage for US-Middle East relations ever since.

by Lawrence Wu, Michelle Lanz via NPR on February 7, 2019

The Soviets and US

The contours and legacies of the most consequential political rivalry of the 20th century.

World War I Relived Day by Day

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.

by Patrick Chovanec via New York Review of Books on November 8, 2018

Mum’s the Word

In the height of the Cold War, the NSA created a series of posters to keep its secrets from leaking. They're both wonderful and creepy.

by Benjamin Breen on October 5, 2018

Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History

The political scientist argues that the desire of identity groups for recognition is a key threat to liberalism.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on September 3, 2018

The Nuclear Fail

Physicist and writer Leo Szilard was vital to the creation of the atomic bomb. He also did everything he could to prevent its use.

by Emily Harnett via Hazlitt on July 30, 2018

Explaining the 'Mystery' of Numbers Stations

The stations' broadcasts have been attributed to aliens and Cold War relics, but they actually are coded intelligence messages.

by Maris Goldmanis via War on the Rocks on May 24, 2018

How We Nuke

Our launch protocols were designed to bypass checks and balances for a quick retaliation.

by Emil Friis Ernst via The Nib on March 19, 2018

Paul Manafort, American Hustler

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on January 28, 2018

Everyday Soviet Nostalgia

Retracing the 1947 journey that John Steinbeck and Robert Capa took to introduce America to Soviet life.

by Laura Reston via The New Republic on January 2, 2018

The Triumph and Near-Tragedy of the First Moon Landing

Across the cislunar blackness, we set sail for a landing that almost didn't happen.

by Eric Berger via Ars Technica on December 19, 2017

Putin and Trump.

Why This Is Not Trump’s Watergate

Mueller and his team are facing a president who seems willing to take down the entire democratic apparatus to save his own skin.

by Andrew Cohen via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2017

Yes, We’ve Done It Too

A history of the United States meddling in the elections of other countries.

by Jess Engebretson via KQED on March 2, 2017

Christmas in the Space Age: Looking Back at the Wild Designs of Mid-20th-Century Holidays

There are two critical periods for Christmas. One is the Victorian era. The other is the 1960s.

by Sarah Archer, Todd Vanderwerff via Vox on November 25, 2016

Collage drawing of elements of US-Cuba relations, including JFK, Castro, missiles, a journalist at a typewriter, and soldiers from both sides carrying guns.

Cuba Libre

Covering the island has been a central concern for The Nation since the beginning—producing scoops, aiding diplomacy, and pushing for a change in policy.

by Peter Kornbluh via The Nation on March 23, 2015

Crowd with hands up at World Youth Festival

When the C.I.A. Duped College Students

Inside a famous Cold War deception.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on March 16, 2015

Full text of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, etched in stone.

What Does It Mean To Make America "Christian?"

The "Christian Amendment" and the push for Christianity to be established as the national religion of the United States.

by Charles Louis Richter via (Ir)religion In America on February 26, 2015

Atomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midcentury Midwest

How the St. Louis Baby Tooth Study reconciled the ritual of childhood tooth loss with the geopolitics of nuclear annihilation.

by Caroline Jack, Stephanie Steinhardt via The Appendix on November 26, 2014

Typewriter with keys that have the letters "IA" on each of them.

How Iowa Flattened Literature

With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.

by Eric Bennett via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 10, 2014

Black-and-white still image from the film "Dr. Strangelove," in which a man is shouting and waving his hat in the air while riding a missile in flight.

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

by Eric Schlosser via The New Yorker on January 17, 2014

Jimmy Carter Toasts the Shah

The Shah’s reign witnessed years of oppression against the Iranian people, and Carter’s toast added fuel to the fire.

via Voices & Visions on December 31, 1977

Johnson delivers the State of the Union address in 1965.

Lyndon B. Johnson's 1968 State of the Union Address

An unpopular Lyndon B. Johnson sought unity amid turmoil in his 1968 address to Congress.

by Lyndon Baines Johnson via The American Presidency Project on January 17, 1968

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy speaking

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.

by Richard Hofstadter via Harper’s on November 1, 1964

Title card for animated film "Destination Earth".

Destination Earth (1956)

A Cold War-era cartoon celebrates the wonders of oil and free-market capitalism, and the overthrow of the Stalin-like leader of Mars.

by John Sutherland via The Public Domain Review on June 1, 1956

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