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The End of the Golden Era of Chess

The recent passing of Pal Benko and Shelby Lyman draws the curtain on an American period that produced some of the game’s most sparkling play.

by Peter Nicholas via The Atlantic on September 5, 2019

Cover of "Cold Warriors" book.

Before Oprah’s Book Club, there was the CIA

‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.

by Ethan Davison via The Outline on August 26, 2019

A UFO in front of hills

More UFOs Than Ever Before

What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?

by Rich Cohen via The Paris Review on August 26, 2019

What Hawaii’s Statehood Says About Inclusion in America

Conditional inclusion for "model minorities" perpetuates enduring forms of racial exclusion.

by Sarah Miller Davenport via Made By History on August 16, 2019

Mugshot of Bernard L. Barker.

Want to Know Why Some Hispanics Support Donald Trump? Ask Richard Nixon.

Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.

by Geraldo Cadava via Made By History on August 9, 2019

The Most Dangerous American Idea

No belief in the history of the US has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on August 5, 2019

Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface with flag during Apollo 11.

How Stanley Kubrick Staged the Moon Landing

To understand America, you can start with Apollo 11 and all that is counterfactual that’s grown around it.

by Rich Cohen via The Paris Review on July 18, 2019

The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

Frank Malina's scientific dreams were as radical as his politics.

by Fraser MacDonald via Literary Hub on June 26, 2019

Dr. Strange Love, from the Stanley Kubrick film of the same name

Watching the End of the World

The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?

by Stephen Phelan via Boston Review on June 11, 2019

Senators Joseph McCarthy and Kenneth Wherry.

Democracy and Misinformation

The Cold War and today.

by Jennifer M. Miller via Perspectives on History on June 10, 2019

“1984” at Seventy

Why we still read Orwell’s book of prophecy.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on June 8, 2019

Here Comes the D-Day Myth Again

The Allied invasion of France was an important step in the war against the Nazis. But it was by no means a turning point.

by Kevin Kennedy via HNN on June 6, 2019

Full Metal Racket

A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to the military-industrial complex.

by Jamie Martin via Bookforum on June 1, 2019

Jackie Robinson Was Asked to Denounce Paul Robeson. Instead, He Went After Jim Crow.

His testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee was a turning point for the baseball hero.

by Johnny Smith via Andscape on April 15, 2019

Arms Sales: USA vs. Russia (1950-2017)

A closer look at the geopolitics of weapons sales through the Cold War, and beyond.

by Jeff Desjardins, Will Geary via Visual Capitalist on April 2, 2019

Children in a classroom in the 1950s.

How the Cold War Defined Scientific Freedom

The idea that liberal democracies shielded science from politics was always flawed.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on March 25, 2019

Racists in Congress Fought Statehood For Hawaii, But Lost That Battle 60 Years Ago

It took more than five decades for advocates of statehood to vanquish white supremacists in Washington.

by Sarah Miller Davenport via The Conversation on March 18, 2019

Geopolitics for the Left

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

by Ted Fertik via n+1 on March 11, 2019

The Toxic Legacy of the Korean War

The Korean War upended the constitutional balance of war powers. It has been cited by presidents ever since.

by Mary L. Dudziak via Washington Post on March 1, 2019

Korean mothers and children cover their ears as they watch a battle.

The Forgotten War

What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?

via Throughline on February 21, 2019

The Memorial Chapel of the Épinal American Cemetery in Lorraine, France.

How the U.S. Designed Overseas Cemeteries to Win the Cold War

Building large memorials to display power and dominance, the US government hoped to inspire Judeo-Christian and capitalist ideals with their cemeteries.

by Kate Clarke Lemay via What It Means to Be American on February 14, 2019

How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days

The first episode of NPR's new history podcast tells the story of a 1953 coup that set the stage for US-Middle East relations ever since.

by Lawrence Wu, Michelle Lanz via NPR on February 7, 2019

Imperial Exceptionalism

Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.

by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on January 29, 2019

The Vice President’s Men

In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.

by Seymour M. Hersh via London Review of Books on January 4, 2019

Washington Trained Guatemala’s Mass Murderers—and the Border Patrol Played a Role

Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. But the agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history.

by Greg Grandin, Elizabeth Oglesby via The Nation on January 3, 2019

Who Killed Jakelin Caal Maquín at the US Border?

She died of cardiac arrest, but the real killer was decades of US policy in Central America.

by Greg Grandin, Elizabeth Oglesby via The Nation on December 17, 2018

A page of Trump's first proposed budget, focusing on International Programs (2017).

The New Arms Race: American Businesses vs. China’s Government Money

How we outsourced foreign aid to private companies.

by Brandon Kirk Williams via Made By History on December 10, 2018

Operation Ajax

How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed.

by Bridey Heing via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 26, 2018

Science’s Freedom Fighters

Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?

by W. Patrick McCray via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 18, 2018

How a Folk Singer’s Murder Forced Chile to Confront Its Past

Víctor Jara was a legendary Chilean folk singer and political activist whose murder during a U.S.-backed military coup in 1973 went unsolved for decades.

via Retro Report on November 18, 2018

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