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James Buchanan's 1832 Mission to the Tsar
The plight of Poland and the limits of America's revolutionary legacy in Jacksonian foreign policy.
by
Derek Kane O'Leary
via
Age of Revolutions
on
March 6, 2023
The African Diplomats Who Protested Segregation in the U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations.
by
Francine Uenuma
via
Smithsonian
on
February 24, 2023
partner
Diplomacy Defused Cold War Crises. It Can Help Again Today.
The type of quiet, personal, informed diplomacy advocated by George Kennan can reduce tensions with China and Russia.
by
Frank Costigliola
via
Made By History
on
February 10, 2023
The Ghosts of Kennan
Lessons from the start of the Cold War.
by
Fredrik Logevall
via
Foreign Affairs
on
December 20, 2022
The Curious Affair of the Horsewhipped Senator: A Diplomatic Crisis That Didn’t Happen
The senators, like the grand jurors, knew their man, and probably conceded that Temple had given him the hiding he had been asking for.
by
Neil R. Stout
via
Commonplace
on
November 8, 2022
Why American Leaders Relish Hot-Dog Diplomacy
For 80 years, wieners have been an essential component of foreign policy.
by
Doug Mack
via
Atlas Obscura
on
June 17, 2022
“Pale, Male, and [Educated At] Yale"
Diversity, national Identity, and the fraught history behind the State Department’s search for diplomats who “look like America.”
by
John Gleb
via
Not Even Past
on
April 7, 2022
partner
Colonial Traffic in Native American Women
“European and Indian men—as captors, brokers, and buyers—used captured and enslaved women to craft relationships of trade and reciprocity with one another.”
by
Matthew Wills
,
Juliana Barr
via
JSTOR Daily
on
December 13, 2021
Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti
Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti.
by
Peter James Hudson
via
Boston Review
on
December 9, 2021
partner
The Atlantic Charter Then and Now: Security and Stability Needs Justice
The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.
by
Christopher McKnight Nichols
,
Elizabeth Borgwardt
via
Made By History
on
June 22, 2021
The People’s Ambassadress: The Forgotten Diplomacy of Ivy Litvinov
How Ivy Litvinov, the English-born wife of a Soviet ambassador, seduced America with wit, tea and soft diplomacy.
by
Brigid O'Keefe
via
Aeon
on
March 29, 2021
partner
Turn Out the Lights: When the Last American Diplomats Fled China
Untold stories of American diplomats who "lost" China.
by
Joe Renouard
via
HNN
on
May 10, 2020
Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’
A day-by-day account of the historic summit in Yalta, seventy-five years later.
by
Diana Preston
via
Literary Hub
on
February 4, 2020
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.
by
Samuel Moyn
via
London Review of Books
on
January 27, 2020
The End of the American Century
What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.
by
George Packer
via
The Atlantic
on
April 10, 2019
Diplomatic Back Channels Were Once Seen as a Good Thing
But they've always been risky.
by
Steven T. Usdin
via
TIME
on
September 4, 2018
What the Cuban Missile Crisis Can Teach Us About the North Korean Missile Crisis
To avoid catastrophe, Kennedy turned to diplomacy. Trump would be wise to do the same.
by
Martin J. Sherwin
via
The Nation
on
August 23, 2017
How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.
by
Michael A. Reynolds
via
Compact
on
August 15, 2025
The Way We Understand the Cold War Is Wrong
People tend to assume they know exactly what the Cold War was and when it ended. Anders Stephanson argues that this standard chronology doesn’t fit the facts.
by
Anders Stephanson
via
Jacobin
on
July 27, 2025
‘The Canal Is Ours’
Trump’s threats to take control of the Panama Canal have precipitated a struggle over the country’s sovereignty.
by
Miriam Pensack
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 28, 2025
History of Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Detailed in New Collection
U.S.-Iran diplomacy, intelligence on South Korea's nuclear program, and fears that a reactor given to India would become a “do-it-yourself bomb kit.”
by
William Burr
via
National Security Archive
on
June 25, 2025
How Charles Sumner Convinced Abraham Lincoln and the Union To Take a Stand Against Slavery
The domestic and international dynamics of the early days of the Civil War.
by
Zaakir Tameez
via
Literary Hub
on
June 11, 2025
Trump Calls the U.S.-Canada Border an "Artificial Line." That's not Entirely True.
Just because it's man-made doesn't mean it's not legitimate.
by
Rachel Treisman
via
NPR
on
May 9, 2025
The Conservative Historian Every Socialist Should Read
A lifetime spent studying the disastrous lead-up to World War I gave Paul Schroeder reason to be horrified at the recklessness of US foreign policy.
by
Mathias Fuelling
via
Jacobin
on
April 22, 2025
Worse Than Signalgate
Accidentally sharing attack plans in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is worse.
by
Timothy W. Ryback
via
The Atlantic
on
April 11, 2025
Squanto: A Native Odyssey
A new biography tells a far more complex, nuanced, and, frankly, interesting historical episode than that depicted in the typical grade-school pageant.
by
Lincoln Paine
via
A Sea Of Words
on
March 4, 2025
How Allies Have Helped the US Gain Independence, Defend Freedom and Keep the Peace
Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.
by
Donald Heflin
via
The Conversation
on
February 20, 2025
The First Draft of the Ukraine War’s History
Washington’s policy-makers showed themselves more wicked and feckless than their Vietnam- and Iraq-era predecessors.
by
Scott McConnell
via
The American Conservative
on
February 19, 2025
The Panama Canal Treaty Declassified
Kissinger warned: “This is no issue to face the world on. It looks like pure colonialism.”
by
Peter Kornbluh
via
National Security Archive
on
February 3, 2025
partner
Why Trump Wants Greenland—And Why He Probably Won't Get It
He's not the first to set his sights on the island.
by
James Patton Rogers
,
Caroline Kennedy Pipe
via
Made By History
on
January 23, 2025
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