Beyond

What happened to the last million Eastern Europeans in refugee camps in Germany, who refused to return home, or who had no home to return to.

A history of inflammatory illness epithets.

Richard J. Werther discusses how being outmanned by the best army in the world led American revolutionaries to look overseas for the help they needed.

Since its emergence in the middle of the twentieth century, the American Empire has been fueled by the search for an enemy.

Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first nation in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly, on September 4, 1970.

It’s hard to imagine having more direct control over a foreign country’s political system — short of a straight-up military occupation.

In Guatemala, the CIA hired an American actor and two radio DJs to oust a president.

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.

As the 2020 presidential election nears, internationalists are plotting their return. But they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

How many people really died because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? It’s complicated. There are at least two credible answers.

In 1920, like 2020, race became the pivot of a historic turning point.

An empire built on the backs and blood of enslaved Africans.

The world's eyes are upon America as it struggles with racism and inequality. This is nothing new.

One has to wonder whether the advocates of a new Cold War have taken the measure of the challenge posed by 21st-century China.

The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.

Modern policing is linked to overseas colonial projects of conquest, occupation, and rule. Demilitarization requires uprooting that worldview.

Fighting for the soul of American space policy.

For decades they covered up the U.S. massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri and elsewhere. This is why we never learn our lessons.

Iran and surplus imperialism.

How allies abroad help the fight against racism at home.

As white, southern troops raised the battle flag, they showed that they were fighting for change abroad—but the status quo at home.

A riveting new book shows how the Civil War in the West was both strategically important and lacking in the moral contours of the broader war.

The founders of modern policing quelled foreign uprisings. ‘Demilitarizing’ police will be harder than taking away their tanks.

A new book considers the mid-century authors who were – and weren't – willing to have their work deployed in the service of the Cold War.

How the politics of American imperialism often intersected with calls for women's suffrage.

Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris focused on the patriotism of men who fought for the country abroad while being discriminated against at home.

The systematic mass murder and assault of accused communists in Indonesia by US-backed military forces has left a mark on the country and the world.

The US-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.

Winthrop's specimens illustrated an alteration of the New World environment and the political economy of New England according to Winthrop's careful designs.