Henry Kissinger

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.

In the 1980s, millions of antinuclear activists took to the streets, forcing Western governments to respond to our demands.

Like Nixon, Trump has managed to marginalize the media, creating an effective foil.

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?

Congress isn't safe from foreign interference. It never has been.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

The PBS documentary on America’s most futile conflict is missing one explosive document. Every president should absorb its chilling lessons.

In promoting healing instead of a search for truth, “The Vietnam War” offers misleading comforts.

The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

Is he crazy, or crazy like a fox?

The Confederate flag’s military tenure continued long after the Civil War ended.