Shirley Temple Black, born April 23, 1928, served her country in vastly different ways. As a child star in the…
Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, one the longest-serving rulers in history, opened his newly-independent country’s political system to multiple party…
An article by an American reporter alleged that the U.S. embassy in Jakarta played a role in the Indonesian massacres…
Strobe Talbott assumed the presidency of the Brookings Institution in July 2002 after a career in journalism, government and academia.…
May 15th, 1955, was a momentous occasion for a war-battered Europe, and for the national history of Austria as the…
A collision in the air, a destroyed Chinese fighter jet and a U.S. ‘spy’ plane forced to make an emergency…
The State Department has had a long and often illustrious history, as it was the first department created by Congress…
George Frost Kennan was, and still remains, a very controversial and legendary figure in American diplomatic history. As a historian,…
After the 1949 defeat of the Chinese Nationalists at the hands of Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army, the newly-proclaimed People’s…
The development and potential use of nuclear weapons defined the Cold War era and kept the world under the shadow…