Before being absorbed and restructured by the State Department in 1999, the United States Information Agency (USIA) was an independent…
“But if I really say it/ the radio won’t play it/ unless I lay it between the lines.” This song…
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In 1969, Colonel Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry (seen right), who three years earlier had graduated from the United States Army Command…
The leader of the Bangladesh’s independence movement, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, helped create a sovereign nation, successfully taking on Pakistani occupying…
Illegal immigration remains a hotly contested issue within the United States, as evidenced by the subject’s repeated appearance in American…
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…
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