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Top Moments in U.S. Diplomatic History Special Centennial Collection – Our core collection of over 1,000 “Moments in U.S. Diplomatic…
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Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War Education
Robert Hopkins Miller’s forty-year Foreign Service career, from 1951 to 1991, spanned virtually the entire Cold War. Miller worked on…
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In Toussaint’s Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution, former ambassador Gordon Brown relates how America’s early leaders and their…
Afghanistan Project-Jim Bever
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