Beyond

What did the Roosevelt administration know, and when?

Anti-Catholic sentiment in the States gave men like John Riley little reason to continue to pay allegiance to the stars and stripes.

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

The Vaudeville star was at the height of her fame in Europe when WWII struck, and used her status for the allies.

Over the first half of the 20th century, the movement galvanized groups throughout the Americas who helped inaugurate what we think of today as global feminism.

What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?

On the erasure of American "territories" from US history.

Why Lincoln’s "one war at a time" doctrine saved the Union.

The U.S. did not always find it necessary to lock up people seeking asylum.

Much of the migrant "crisis" is blowback from decades of official U.S. policy in Central America.

Building large memorials to display power and dominance, the US government hoped to inspire Judeo-Christian and capitalist ideals with their cemeteries.

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.

It has long been an important element of U.S. international affairs.

A hundred years at the edge of empire.

Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.

In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.

Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. But the agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history.

The birth, death and afterlife of our romance with tobacco.

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.

How the resignation of a Carter era ambassador still echoes today.

She died of cardiac arrest, but the real killer was decades of US policy in Central America.

On this tiny British outpost, conditions of isolation and alcholism mixed with the era's revolutionary fervor to inspire a number of revolts.

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.

How we outsourced foreign aid to private companies.

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.

Víctor Jara was a legendary Chilean folk singer and political activist whose murder during a U.S.-backed military coup in 1973 went unsolved for decades.

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?

In the 1920s, Syrian-Americans were compelled to prove their worth in a society where nativism was on the rise and citizenship often meant being considered white.