U.S. History - to 1945

If you heard “the Democratic National Convention was a real disaster!” and if you know much about American History, you might think of the y...

Frances Slanger was born in Poland in 1913. But there was no country on the map named ‘Poland’ in that year! The territory labeled ‘Poland...

In the grand tradition about freedom of belief, people in Western Civilization instinctively tend to tolerate a diversity of political parti...

Can you remember something that happened before you were born? An event at which you were not present? Scholars sometimes call this ‘histo...

Starting in the 1920s, China was engaged in a civil war. Mao’s communists hoped to gain control of the country from the nationalists led by ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union quietly set up ‘front’ organizations in the United States. These groups appeared to be benign social g...

When a Foreign Service Officer (FSO) named John Service met with some members the Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR) in late 1944, it mig...