Henry Kissinger

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.

Using the word incorrectly oversimplifies history—and won't help us address our current political crisis.

The inside story of Mayday 1971 and the largest mass arrest in US history.

Iran and surplus imperialism.

The US-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.

The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.

The women of May 19th bombed the U.S. Capitol and plotted Henry Kissinger’s murder. But they’ve been long forgotten.

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.

Why America shouldn’t panic about its latest challenger.

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.

Well before Watergate broke, John Ashbrook waged a primary campaign that the Right took very seriously.

In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.

In a taped call with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms.

The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the US.

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

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.

How we outsourced foreign aid to private companies.

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.