Selwa “Lucky” Roosevelt is best known for her role as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1982 to…
Among the challenges of serving as a U.S. diplomat in the USSR during the Cold War years of 1945 to…
As General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev authorized the release of thousands of Soviet Jews who wanted to leave the…
In 1989, change was in the air throughout all of Eastern Europe. Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost and perestroika –…
The extent of the surveillance operations of the Soviet KGB is legendary, but the Soviet Union was not the only…
Each and every job has a certain set of requirements and restrictions. Alcohol has played a large role in diplomacy,…
For many diplomats, the time spent under constant surveillance while in Soviet bloc countries during the Cold War could lead…
Relations between the United States and Ghana were strained in the early 1980s. Its leader, the enigmatic former Flight Lieutenant…
During the Cold War and beyond, Western diplomats had to constantly keep their wits about them when serving in the…
The Manhattan Project is one of the largest scientific research programs the United States has ever seen — and certainly…