Beyond

Untold stories of American diplomats who "lost" China.

Any attempt to revive solidarity between rich and poor nations must begin by recapturing the commitment to social and economic rights that inspired the WHO.

The war and its aftermath, from a Vietnamese perspective.

How to hide an empire, from the Spanish-American war to CIA-sponsored Latin American coups.

Watching disease spread and kill on slave ships.

The history of caffeine and capitalism can get surprisingly heated.

The disease afflicted the author as he was writing what would become "The Innocents Abroad."

In 1625, New England’s “hideous and desolate” isolation suddenly began to seem a God-given blessing in disguise.

A story of quarantine.

A look at the economic changes that occured after the Black Death in Europe and what that could mean for the aftermath of Covid-19.

The number of MoMA-CIA crossovers is highly suspicious, to say the least.

Over the centuries, societies have shown a long history of making the effects of epidemics worse and furthering their own destruction.

It has little to do with what happened in 1915, and everything to do with Cold War-era geopolitics in the Middle East.

Plan Colombia functioned like an ideological laboratory for forever war in the twenty-first century.

Sanders was expressing broadly bipartisan enthusiasm for Soviet reform, not a love of authoritarianism.

For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.

A new book asks why the left fell out of love with Zionism, but what it reveals is why liberal Zionists fell out of love with the left.

In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.

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.