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U.S. soldiers in combat during the Korean War
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How the Korean War Changed the Way the U.S. Goes to Battle

In the Cold War, North Korean Communists invaded South Korea. President Truman’s decision to intervene had consequences that shape the world today.
via Retro Report on April 19, 2021
Men at a table surrounded by flags of the world.

Why Is America the World’s Police?

A new book explains how U.S. political elites sold the UN to the public as a route to global peace, while all along wanting it as a cover for militarization.
by Sam Lebovic via Boston Review on October 19, 2020
Refutees carrying their possessions prepare to board a truck

Finding a Home for the Last Refugees of World War II

What happened to the last million Eastern Europeans in refugee camps in Germany, who refused to return home, or who had no home to return to.
by David Nasaw via Literary Hub on September 15, 2020
Black Lives Matter march.

Civil Rights Has Always Been a Global Movement

How allies abroad help the fight against racism at home.
by Brenda Gayle Plummer via Foreign Affairs on June 19, 2020

The Infinity War

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?
by Samuel Moyn, Stephen Wertheim via Washington Post on December 13, 2019

Inventing the Environment

A review of two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”
by Carolyn Taratko via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 15, 2019

Ari Fleischer Lied, and People Died

The former Bush mouthpiece had more to do personally with the Iraq WMD catastrophe than he wants us to believe.
by Scott Ritter via The American Conservative on March 22, 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

Marc Lamont Hill and the Legacy of Punishing Black Internationalists

CNN's firing of Hill fits into a troubling history of repressing black voices on Palestine.
by Noura Erakat via Washington Post on December 5, 2018

Trump’s Nineteenth-Century Grand Strategy

The themes of his UN General Assembly speech have deep roots in U.S. history.
by Charles A. Kupchan via Foreign Affairs on September 28, 2018

Iran Hawks Are the New Iraq Hawks

Many of the assumptions that guided America’s march to conflict in 2003 still dominate American foreign policy today.   
by Peter Beinart via The Atlantic on May 8, 2018
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Paying for Climate Change

Despite his extreme rhetoric, Trump is merely the latest in a long line of U.S. leaders unwilling to pony up for global environmental accords.
by Stephen Macekura on January 16, 2018
Hillary Clinton in Haiti

The King and Queen of Haiti

There’s no country that more clearly illustrates the confusing nexus of Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Bill Clinton’s foundation than Haiti.
by Jonathan M. Katz via Politico Magazine on May 2, 2015
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration headquarters.
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Trump May be Repeating Reagan's Deep Sea Mining Mistake

Undermining international oceans governance could damage American interests.
by Sonya Schoenberger via Made By History on June 17, 2025
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Free Trader

A little understood part of the New Deal.
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on April 4, 2025
Destroyed buildings in Gaza.

Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?

A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”
by Mari Cohen via Jewish Currents on December 19, 2024
Young people running through the streets of Taipei; a middle aged businessman in Houston.

Texas’ Hotbed of Taiwanese Nationalism

For decades, Houston families like mine have helped keep the flame of independence burning.
by Josephine Lee via Texas Observer on November 25, 2024

Globalism, Sovereignty, and Resistance

Quinn Slobodian and Jennifer Mittelstadt discuss their research on the meanings of “globalism” and “sovereignty” throughout history.
by Jennifer Mittelstadt, Quinn Slobodian via History & Political Economy Project on November 18, 2024
Haitian gang members carrying assault rifles, standing in the center of a stylized rifle sight.

Haiti’s Agents Of Fear

Haitians are caught between the grip of violent gangs and the messy legacies of foreign intervention.
by Matthew J. Smith via Noema on October 29, 2024
Pope Francis.

Whatever Happened to the Language of Peace?

Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.
by Sohrab Ahmari via New Statesman on May 8, 2024
Richard and Pat Nixon plant a tree on the White House lawn on Earth Day, 1970.

The “Carbon Dioxide Problem”: Nixon’s Inner Circle Debates the Climate Crisis

A collection of records from the Nixon Presidential Library and other sources on the internal debates Nixon advisors were having about climate change and environment.
by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Henry Kissinger, Hubert Heffner, U. Alexis Johnson, Rachel Santarsiero via National Security Archive on April 26, 2024
Union members and civil rights activists in Georgia protest Shell's business with apartheid South Africa.

Galvanizing the American Public, ANC and Anti-Apartheid

How the ANC went from an organization whose role in the struggle was hotly debated, to being widely hailed as the heir to the international anti-apartheid movement.
by Jessica Ann Levy via Black Perspectives on April 24, 2024
Demonstrators show support for Palestine.

How the ADL’s Anti-Palestinian Advocacy Helped Shape U.S. Terror Laws

Long before 9/11, Zionist groups like the Anti-Defamation League lobbied for counterterror legislation that singled out Palestinians.
by Alice Speri via The Intercept on February 21, 2024
Woodrow Wilson.

The Poltergeist of Woodrow Wilson

We still live with the consequences of the 28th president’s fuzzy thinking.
by Sean Durns via The American Conservative on February 9, 2024
Fred Dube at a 1981 UN meeting, “South African Women and Labour under Apartheid.”

The Silencing of Fred Dube

Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.
by Abena Ampofoa Asare via Boston Review on January 18, 2024
Lagoon in Majuro Atoll with tropical trees in the background and a rainbow in the sky

On the Map

The flag of Bikini Atoll looks a lot like the American flag. It has the same red and white stripes. The resemblance is intentional.
by Carleigh Beriont via Process: A Blog for American History on December 12, 2023
U.S. President Truman smiles next to the President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann

A Brief History of the US-Israel 'Special Relationship'

A historian of the Middle East examines how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state.
by Fayez Hammad via The Conversation on November 29, 2023
Scientists releasing weather balloons
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Healing the Ozone: First Steps Toward Success

A worldwide effort to heal damage to the ozone layer is showing early progress.
via Retro Report on September 12, 2023
George w. Bush delivers a speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished."

The Worst Crime of the 21st Century

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.
by Noam Chomsky, Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on May 12, 2023
The Iraq flag waving in the wind.

Confronting the Iraq War

Melvyn Leffler’s book on the roots of the Iraq invasion demonstrates the pitfalls of excessive trust in one’s sources, especially when they're top policymakers.
by Joseph Stieb via War on the Rocks on January 30, 2023
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