Beyond

History suggests that a more discreet American presence in Afghanistan will be a provocation rather than a source of security.

The Cold War may be over, but an arms race continues, even as safeguards once in place have fallen away.

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

In the Cold War, North Korean Communists invaded South Korea. President Truman’s decision to intervene had consequences that shape the world today.

A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.

Undocumented Black migrants struggle to have their asylum rights recognized in the United States. Groups have been asking President Biden to stop deportations.

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.

U.S. nuclear weapons testing displaced residents of the Marshall Islands. They're still fighting for justice for the devastation of their homeland and health.

Abolition in Africa brought longed-for freedoms, but also political turmoil, economic collapse and rising enslavement.

How Ivy Litvinov, the English-born wife of a Soviet ambassador, seduced America with wit, tea and soft diplomacy.

Declassified documents show the State Department had ample forewarning that a coup was being plotted, and that human rights violations would be committed.

Failures in prosecuting German businesses who profited in Nazi Germany show how far Europe and America were willing to go to protect capitalism.

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?

She also acted as a muse to artist Man Ray, with whom she briefly led a relationship.

The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.

Emilio Sanchez and the British government fought the lucrative business as American authorities looked the other way.

Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.

America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told.

The US imperialist wars in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan grew from US wars against Indigenous people in the 19th century.

As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.

Could the separation of the Revolutionary War have been patched in the late 19th century? Some powerful men tried...

By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.

What happened on January 6 was profoundly American, emerging as it did from our long and very specific history. No one did this to us.

How decolonisation propelled the growth of low-tax jurisdictions, with lasting economic implications for former colonies.

Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.

How the United States terrorizes the rest of the world, Baldwin realized abroad, echoed how it terrorized its inhabitants at home.

Pandemics can only be contained through organized collaboration and cooperative diplomacy.

After World War II, American power on the world stage was defined by internationalism and cooperation.

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.