Born in Boston in 1706, Benjamin Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and he…
May 15th, 1955, was a momentous occasion for a war-battered Europe, and for the national history of Austria as the…
Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 Open Door policy unleashed China’s economy beyond its borders through political reforms and regional trade agreements. This…
“But if I really say it/ the radio won’t play it/ unless I lay it between the lines.” This song…
In 1976, the USSR deployed hundreds of intermediate-range SS-20s (pictured), which were an upgrade of the older SS-3 and SS-4…
The leader of the Bangladesh’s independence movement, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, helped create a sovereign nation, successfully taking on Pakistani occupying…
George Frost Kennan was, and still remains, a very controversial and legendary figure in American diplomatic history. As a historian,…
The development and potential use of nuclear weapons defined the Cold War era and kept the world under the shadow…
When Admiral William Leahy retired as Chief of Naval Operations in August 1939, President Roosevelt personally awarded him the…
1989 was the year of remarkable popular uprisings throughout the world, most notably Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin…