Beyond

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.

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.