Beyond

A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa.

Similar bars have been marshaled against Central Americans since the late 1980s — severely undermining access to asylum.

When Hollywood went down Argentine way.

A fatal combination of fear, power, and hubris.

Americans helped spread a right-wing version of evangelical Christianity in Brazil. Now it has played a role in an insurrection.

“National security” and the history of US export controls.

To most 21st century Americans, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. But how that paradise became part of the United States is a long, complex, and often dark story.

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

The historical record reveals the real circumstances that led to the improbable capture of eleven British ships.

Some Native Americans chose to fight for the Southern cause.

A new book examines military manuals as a genre to understand what armed counter-revolutionaries think of as the right way to do what they do.

Treaties with Britain, the Confederated tribes, and Spain revealed that America was still dependent on the greater geopolitics of the Atlantic World.

The Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, an oft overlooked conflict that continues to shape the politics and culture(s) of North America.

Lessons from the start of the Cold War.

Great-power competition demands persuasion, not coercion.

Liberians in West Fargo trying to dodge racism are deeply woven into American history.

Sanctions were conceived as an alternative to war. But they may have made the world more violent.

The story of David Ross Locke's travels to Western Europe.

The concept of geopolitics comes from German and Russian attempts to explain defeat and reverse loss of influence.

The captain of the U.S. soccer team is the latest in a long line of sports stars who have had to wrestle with a complex legacy on the world stage.

Black Germans have used activism and scholarship to shed light on what they describe as Germany’s racist fascination with the American South.

In the 1980s, Cold War tensions led to thousands of Cubans languishing in American prisons, unable to be released or repatriated. Uprisings followed.

A brief look into Equiano's life reveals that many Black figures were considerably more transnational in their movements and critiques than commonly assumed.

The Cromwell twins fled the constrictions of high society for the freedoms of the literary world. Ravenous for greater purpose, the twins then went to war.

Before Geronimo met any white Americans or came to think of them as enemies of the Apaches, he spent years fighting Mexicans.

Several years before the United States officially entered World War II, Black Americans were tracking the international spread of fascism.

In the 1930s, Americans fell in love with Czechoslovakia and Spain; today, it’s Ukraine. What happens when one finds a “second mother country”?

The West is using the wrong analogy for Russia’s invasion—and worsening the outcome.

They looked at France and said: “Make it make sense.”

The Pentagon's official history says that a heavy bombardment by B-52s in 1972 pushed the North Vietnamese to return to negotiated peace. What are the facts?