Harry S. Truman

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?

The first episode of NPR's new history podcast tells the story of a 1953 coup that set the stage for US-Middle East relations ever since.

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.

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.

The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.

If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended.

MacArthur leaned on JFK to stay out of Vietnam. Had Kennedy survived, might history have been different?

The history of the fight for single-payer health care for the elderly and poor should inform today's movement to win for Medicare for All.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.

What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.

The Democratic leader believed that the ordinary American was open to a message of collective responsibility and common purpose.

Outlining America's complex relationship and shared history with Puerto Rico and questions about sovereignty.

Today's Israel lobby is one of the most powerful forces in Washington, but how did it start?

He became known as an apolitical preacher. But Graham started out as an ardent conservative.

That's the conclusion of a psychology study published in the journal Sciece.