Beyond

Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.

Highest-level national security documents reveal a tough-minded, detail-oriented president.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.

Trump’s canal comments resurrect a forgotten American interest.

There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.

For a brief window at the end of the Cold War, British alt-rock band Jesus Jones tapped into global feelings of optimism and hope.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial law is of little import compared to the American occupation of the country.

This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.

One speech permanently influenced American diplomacy—and not for the better.

Five years from the emergence of the disease, the world — and the climate — is still grappling with its effects.

Why should American exceptionalism end at the red-light district?

The decline of Southern industries paved the way for plantations in Fiji and Australia, where victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions.

After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s oldest, most direct ties to the Holy Land were established by a Palestinian Arab.

Starting with Obama, American presidents embraced the idea of arresting China’s rise, opening the door to Trump’s trade wars and hawkishness.

For decades, Houston families like mine have helped keep the flame of independence burning.

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century.

Quinn Slobodian and Jennifer Mittelstadt discuss their research on the meanings of “globalism” and “sovereignty” throughout history.

Charles Lindbergh’s ideology prefigured Donald Trump’s—and was rightly disgraced.

Those who draw a line from today to that infamous historical moment when democracy slid into authoritarianism are missing a key difference.

“Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century" exposes a far charted corner of Black history, expanding beyond Paris: the artists who went north.

Haitians are caught between the grip of violent gangs and the messy legacies of foreign intervention.

Black people see what is happening to Palestinians, and many feel the tug of the familiar in their heart.

In assessing the rise of the global anti-democracy movement, the United States must look inward as well as outward.

The overlooked Creek War set the tone for America to come.

The correspondence of Soviet and American women during the Cold War.

On the origins of America's hegemonic foreign policy.

History can make the U.S. better prepared for the specter of protracted large-scale ground combat, which has grown more real in the wake of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Kamala Harris called Iran a “destabilizing, dangerous force.” The appropriate context for this is the US’s own decades-long history of destabilizing Iran.