Beyond

Abolition in Africa brought longed-for freedoms, but also political turmoil, economic collapse and rising enslavement.

How Ivy Litvinov, the English-born wife of a Soviet ambassador, seduced America with wit, tea and soft diplomacy.

Declassified documents show the State Department had ample forewarning that a coup was being plotted, and that human rights violations would be committed.

Failures in prosecuting German businesses who profited in Nazi Germany show how far Europe and America were willing to go to protect capitalism.

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?

She also acted as a muse to artist Man Ray, with whom she briefly led a relationship.

The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.

Emilio Sanchez and the British government fought the lucrative business as American authorities looked the other way.

Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.

America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told.

The US imperialist wars in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan grew from US wars against Indigenous people in the 19th century.

As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.

Could the separation of the Revolutionary War have been patched in the late 19th century? Some powerful men tried...

By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.

What happened on January 6 was profoundly American, emerging as it did from our long and very specific history. No one did this to us.

How decolonisation propelled the growth of low-tax jurisdictions, with lasting economic implications for former colonies.

Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.

How the United States terrorizes the rest of the world, Baldwin realized abroad, echoed how it terrorized its inhabitants at home.

Pandemics can only be contained through organized collaboration and cooperative diplomacy.

After World War II, American power on the world stage was defined by internationalism and cooperation.

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.

Katherine Fite and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, 1945.

The era of anti-fascist struggle was a crucial moment for Black radicals of all stripes.

World War I was a catastrophic, barbaric conflict that left tens of millions of people dead and set the stage for anti-democratic rollbacks for years to come.

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

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.

From Vincent Brown's Cundill Prize-nominated "Tacky’s Revolt."

In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.

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