Beyond

Since 1823, when the Monroe Doctrine was first introduced to the world, the US has regarded Cuba as key to its designs for Latin America.

A revisionist view of the drug wars.

Across the Americas, emancipation moved slowly, and profited those who had benefited from slavery most.

With the emergence of the US as a global superpower in the twentieth-century, anti-Palestinian stereotypes in the media bled over to stigmatize Arab Americans.

Harry Washington fought for his enslaver's enemy during the American Revolution. Later, he migrated to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.

From the Spanish-American War to modern cocktail bars, the daiquiri has a long legacy entangled with US imperialism in the Caribbean.

Recently declassified documents have exposed former Mexican president José López Portillo as a CIA asset.

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life.

The man behind an iconic Vietnam War image captured ‘the ugliest events of our time.'

The invasion is still the most important foreign policy decision by a 21st century U.S. president, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.

A Civil War veteran, John William Boucher was one of the oldest men on the ground during the Great War.

The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.

Today, only nine countries have nuclear weapons. That outcome was hardly inevitable, and the story of how we arrived there holds important lessons for AI.

Survivors of Kissinger's secret war in Cambodia reveal unreported mass killings.

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

Harry Truman used antisemitic slurs in private. But his surprise decision 75 years ago to recognize Israel, launching a fierce alliance, was a long time coming.

When it became clear that the United States and its allies couldn’t “liberate” Eastern Europe through psychological war and covert ops, they turned to sports.

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.

The long history undergirding our harsh bipartisan migration policies.

A conversation on Du Bois' perspective on empire and democracy, the development of his anti-imperial thought, and his vision for transnational solidarity.

Who disbanded Iraq’s army and de-Baathified its bureaucracy?

A Green Mountain Boy's controversial death and its consequences.

Suspicions have long swirled around unscrupulous campaign manager William Casey. We believe the evidence is now overwhelming.

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

Conflict over centralization, political power, and national identity were not unique occurrences in the Americas during the middle decades of the 19th century.

When do wars end, and who gets to decide? These deceptively simple questions are actually quite difficult to answer.

While other explorers may claim credit for discovering the North Pole, an unsung and largely forgotten former sharecropper has as good a case as anyone.

“The End of History?” was an announcement of victory. But a quarter-century later, its author remains unsure if liberalism truly won.

The secret history and unlearned lessons of the Cuban missile crisis.

Dean Calbreath’s biography, “The Sergeant,” relates the improbable adventures of a brilliant 19th-century Black man.