Beyond

"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.

Two of the earliest films to depict the bombing of Hiroshima show how politics shapes national mourning.

The historical narrative surrounding the wartime confinement of ethnic Japanese in the United States grows ever more complex.

How 18th-century British arms sales, the slave trade, and the Revolutionary War contributed to the mess we have today.

Learning to shred with the Bush Administration’s Iraq War fall guy.

A Vietnamese politician and an American academic led Michigan State University into a nation-building experiment and pulled America deeper into war.

Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion, there’s no satisfying answer to the question: What were we doing in Iraq anyway?

Changes to US immigration rules have largely closed the door to new entries, leading inexorably to a “graying” of Irish America.

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.

Frustrated with foreign interference in our elections? So are the people of Latin America.

The hidden hypocrisy within American outrage over Russian election meddling.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.

The founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights talks about the iconic protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the winners’ podium in 1968.

And how they helped seal America’s fate in Vietnam.

To defeat the leftist Sandinistas, Washington provided aid to the Contras along with a crazy psychological warfare anticommunist manual.

Explaining the global impact of British-Chinese relations during the colonial period.

On "The Vietnam War."

Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.

Not only can we not shake the memories of Vietnam, but they still shape our foreign policy debates.

Fifty years ago, 160 young Americans defied State Department orders and partied on the streets of Moscow. The Cold War would never be the same.

The PBS documentary on America’s most futile conflict is missing one explosive document. Every president should absorb its chilling lessons.

Who were the early immigrants to America?

Recent violence in Myanmar reminds us that religion has long been central to Southeast Asian politics.

The enduring Korean War.

Democrats like Lyndon Johnson staunchly supported Israel. Now the party is leaving that legacy behind.

On Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

The peninsula has a long record of risky games with great powers.

The not-so-sweet history.