Beyond

A scholar of social movements in Iran asks why the US has consistently failed to support that country's activist reform movements.

A day-by-day account of the historic summit in Yalta, seventy-five years later.

Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.

Decades after the war, a group of prosecutors and historians discovered the truth about a mysterious SS training camp in occupied Poland.

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.

Though significant, the end of the Cold War was not nearly as significant a turning point as President George H.W. Bush suggested it would be in 1990.

When Ghana gained independence, Freddye Henderson facilitated African American tourism to the new nation.

Trump links the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, positioning himself as Rambo, avenging American humiliation abroad.

During the Cold War, cops at home and military personnel abroad exchanged techniques and tactics to mete out repression and thwart leftist insurgencies.

Three men who brought the terrors of My Lai to light.

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?

Why America shouldn’t panic about its latest challenger.

For nearly two decades, US leaders have sounded a constant refrain: We're making progress in Afghanistan. They weren't, documents show, and they knew it.

In Theodor de Bry’s illustrations for "True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia," the Algonquin are made to look like the Irish. Surprise.

Decades of militarization in U.S. foreign policy have fueled violence at every level of American society.

The U.S. government orchestrated the roundup of people of Japanese descent in 12 Latin American countries, citing “hemispheric security."

How the United States became the world’s police force.

American toilet-building and the continuities of colonial and postcolonial development.

Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism.

A close look at the consequences of nuclear testing.

An excerpt from ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I.

We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?

Archival records make clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.

An Iraqi soldier recalls fleeing through hell at the end of the first gulf war.

And good for him. Nations have always competed for strategically placed land and resources.

Cabinet members slugged it out, but the one with the real war experience convinced Reagan not to avenge the Marine barracks bombing.

In the post-war era, a wave of American young evangelists flocked to Europe to claim the continent for Christ. And the exchanges went both ways.

Some archaeologists argue it’s essential to preserve the history of lunar exploration. But would it represent a claim of U.S. sovereignty over the moon?