Max Kampelman (November 7, 1920 – January 25, 2013) was a key negotiator for the United States on major issues…
Less than a month before President Richard Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974, he took a presidential tour of the…
It sounds like something out of Hollywood. Indeed, it was made into a Brazilian movie in 1997 with Alan Arkin…
January of 1968 saw two of the most serious incidents to occur on the Korean peninsula since the end of…
In these excerpts, Bruce Laingen, then Charge d’Affaires of U.S. Embassy Tehran and one of the “super Satans” kept hostage at the…
Julia Child, who would have celebrated her 100th birthday on August 15, 2012, was a pioneer in bringing French cuisine…
As Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army swept through China during the Civil War against the Nationalists in 1948 and 1949, it took…
On the night of 20–21 August 1968, the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia in…