As Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army swept through China during the Civil War against the Nationalists in 1948 and 1949, it took…
ADST’s Oral History Collection
ADST’s Oral History Collection Since 1986, the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training…
ADST Staff
The late Charles Stuart Kennedy was director of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program since its inception in 1985. A career officer…
An Itch for Politics: Breaking up a Protest in Unconventional Fashion
Politics can be a tough, even nasty business. James Jones describes an incident before he joined the Foreign Service when…
CSI: Sao Paulo — The Search for the Angel of Death
Stephen F. Dachi had one of the more unusual — and as it turned out, fateful — backgrounds of anyone…
The U.S. Embassy Nairobi Bombings
It was one of the most horrific events in U.S. diplomatic history. On August 7, 1998, between 10:30 and 10:40…