U.S. Ambassadors

Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti.

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

An unpublished memoir reveals how the world’s most famous child actress became a star of the environmental movement.

My policy was to work for the best, while expanding NATO to prepare for the worst.

With Susan Ronald’s meticulous, relentless biography, Joseph P. Kennedy is now firmly established in the annals of twentieth-century fascism.

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

The troubled history of the famous poinsettia plant.

Declassified documents show the State Department had ample forewarning that a coup was being plotted, and that human rights violations would be committed.

As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.

Untold stories of American diplomats who "lost" China.

What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.