Dean Gooderham Acheson served as Secretary of State under President Truman from 1949-1953. Noting his enormous influence, historian Randall Woods…
During the Cold War, the United States and the USSR engaged in a zero-sum game throughout the globe; while mutually…
Known as the ‘Giant of Africa,’ Nigeria stretches across the continent like a patchwork quilt, sewn together from dozens of…
“This is a fight for the homeland – it is either us or the Israelis…. Any of the old Palestine…
Dien Bien Phu was a major battle of the first Indochina war in which the French fought against the Viet…
On March 16, 1968, in what was one of the most shocking incidents of the Vietnam War and in the…
Amid the descent of the Iron Curtain, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the conflict in Vietnam lies one of…
It was unusual for any Americans during the Cold War to travel in the Soviet Union but Russell Sveda did…
Emergency medical care in developing countries can be problematic, if not wholly inadequate. Even more so in the 1960s. When…
The shaky peace that had held in Vietnam since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 began to…