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For nearly 20 years in the 17th century, Sweden had a little-known colony that spanned parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Puerto Ricans were forced to become “Porto Ricans” – adopting Anglo customs while subsidizing American profits.

It was shocking to see the flag greet Trump in Poland. But Europeans — some of them white supremacist — have waved it for years.

A forgotten chapter in the history of feminism: why American women chose to flee the West for ‘freedom’ in Soviet Russia.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

The Supreme Court punts on Hernandez v. Mesa, leaving the Constitution lost in the borderlands.

Kennedy had his own secret back channel with Moscow. It may have kept the superpowers from going to war.

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.

Was the American Revolution such a good idea?

It’s not just “Cinco De Drinko,” and it isn’t Mexican Independence Day.

What historian William Appleman Williams taught us about foreign policy and the good society.

If Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan were transported to 2017, they would be shocked that the United States is considering an attack on North Korea.

Tensions ran high when President Wilson quashed the return of the former president’s Rough Riders

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.

With rampant talk of Russian interference, it's worth recounting Washington's role in undermining Russia's 1996 election.

A history of the United States meddling in the elections of other countries.

Before the Civil War, many Southern leaders hoped to expand slavery even beyond the nation's borders.

U.S. immigration policies are inextricably linked to American foreign relations.

A visual record of the largest aerial bombardment in history.

On December 11, 1981, El Salvador’s US-backed soldiers carried out one of the worst massacres in the history of the Americas at El Mozote.

In the 1930s, 16 African-American families from the South rejected the American experiment and looked to Communist Uzbekistan for a chance to build a new world.

On the Loyalists who fled during the Revolutionary War – like Jacob Bailey, who saw freedom from tyranny with the British in Nova Scotia.

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.

Michael A. McDonnell’s book is a wonderfully researched microhistory of the Michilimackinac area from the mid-17th to the early 19th century.

Why did the American Revolution succeed while other revolutions in the same time period did not?

A Depression-era story of mourning, motherhood, and grandiosity.

A new book recovers long-suppressed alternative politics.

Ross Bullen explores the curious case of Prince George Washington, a 19th-century Siamese prince.

Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA.