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Washington Has Meddled in Elections Before

The hidden hypocrisy within American outrage over Russian election meddling.
by William M. LeoGrande via The Conversation on February 26, 2018
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Billy Graham, ‘America’s Pastor’?

He became known as an apolitical preacher. But Graham started out as an ardent conservative.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Made By History on February 22, 2018

Selling American Vigor

The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.
by Rachel Louise Moran via Process: A Blog for American History on February 13, 2018

The World the Cold War Built

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.
by Leon Hadar via The American Conservative on January 31, 2018
Members of ARDE Frente Sur in 1987.

The Psyops Manual the CIA Gave to Nicaragua's Contras Is Totally Bonkers

To defeat the leftist Sandinistas, Washington provided aid to the Contras along with a crazy psychological warfare anticommunist manual.
by Jared Keller via Task & Purpose on December 19, 2017

The Cold War and the Welfare State

If you look hard enough, you can almost find ideological consistency in the Republicans’ breathtaking tax bill.
by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on December 4, 2017

Remembering Baseball’s Right-Wing Rotation

When three Padres pitchers joined the John Birch Society in 1984, the sports world was challenged by a different kind of political activism.
by Bryan Curtis via The Ringer on October 31, 2017
Basketball team listening to coach Don McClanen.

The Role of Sports Ministries in the NFL Protests

A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.
by Paul Putz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 17, 2017

The Power Historian

What was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital center”?
by David Marcus via The Nation on October 12, 2017
Che Guevara holding two children.

Che Guevara’s Last Interview

A CIA operative informed headquarters that before he was shot, the Cuban revolutionary "never lost his composure."
by Jonathan C. Brown via Not Even Past on October 9, 2017

How One Man Helped Burn Down North Korea

The story of one of the most effective and brutal spymasters in U.S. history, and the beginning of an infamous love affair with napalm.
by Blaine Harden via Politico Magazine on October 2, 2017

When Dissent Became Treason

100 years ago, war proved to be a godsend for a president with no tolerance for opposition. We would be wise to heed the lesson.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on September 28, 2017
The filmmakers discuss the Vietnam miniseries.

Burns and Novick, Masters of False Balancing

In promoting healing instead of a search for truth, “The Vietnam War” offers misleading comforts.
by Jerry Lembcke via Public Books on September 15, 2017
Picasso's painting "Massacre in Korea."

Don’t You Hear Her?

The enduring Korean War.
by Jessie Kindig via n+1 on August 18, 2017

A New View of Grenada’s Revolution

The documentary, "The House on Coco Road" tells the little-known story of Grenada's revolution and subsequent U.S. invasion.
by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro via New York Review of Books on July 26, 2017

Ronald Reagan, the First Reality TV Star President

Ronald Reagan is at the heart of the modern American politics of advertising, public relations, and a television in every home.
by Matthew Wills, Tim Raphael via JSTOR Daily on June 5, 2017

America's Obsession With Rooting out Communism Is Making a Comeback

California lawmakers debate barring Communist party members from government jobs.
by Julia Carrie Wong via The Guardian on May 22, 2017
Cross necklace worn over "Vote Trump" shirt.

Why Conservative Evangelicals Have Lined Up for Trump

It’s a match made in heaven.
by Molly Worthen via The Atlantic on May 1, 2017

Dermokratiya, USA

With rampant talk of Russian interference, it's worth recounting Washington's role in undermining Russia's 1996 election.
by Sean Guillory via Jacobin on March 13, 2017

Yes, We’ve Done It Too

A history of the United States meddling in the elections of other countries.
by Jess Engebretson via KQED on March 2, 2017

When W. E. B. Du Bois was Un-American

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.
by Andrew Lanham via Boston Review on January 13, 2017
A memorial to those killed located in El Mozote, El Salvador. Archbishop Romero Trust.

Remember El Mozote

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.
by Branko Marcetic, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on December 12, 2016

Ellis Island's Forgotten Final Act as a Cold War Detention Center

The idealistic interpretation of Ellis Island should be revisited.
by Brianna Nofil via Atlas Obscura on February 2, 2016
CIA Director George Bush and President Gerald R. Ford during a Meeting in the Cabinet Room

The Art of Administration: On Greg Barnhisel’s “Cold War Modernists”

Cold War modernists of the title do not seem to be the painters, sculptors, poets, and novelists who produced the original works.
by Donal Harris via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 2, 2016
Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth the First's spymaster.

Open to Inspection

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.
by Lewis H. Lapham via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 1, 2016

Close the Gate? Refugees, Radicals, and the Red Scare of 1919

If radicalism meant insecurity, and immigration meant radicalism, the government's course was clear.
by Andrew Lipsett via We're History on November 30, 2015
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Never Never Land

The legacy of Operation Pedro Pan, a plan to save Cuban children from communist indoctrination by leaving their families and resettling in the United States.
via BackStory on October 2, 2015
Cover of the U.S. Physical Fitness Program book, featuring silhouettes of people doing calisthenics.
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Run DNC, Run RNC

When the federal government began to claim a stake in the public’s physical fitness, and the origins of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.
via BackStory on July 10, 2015
Crowd with hands up at World Youth Festival

When the C.I.A. Duped College Students

Inside a famous Cold War deception.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on March 16, 2015

Happy Captive Nations Week!

We're supposed to celebrate one of the weirdest artifacts of the Cold War.
by Charles King via Slate on July 24, 2014
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