Robyn Bedell Zalewa grew up and spent all her adult life in the United States, but is part of a little-known chapter of Greek ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

The journalist Tim Weiner investigates the mishaps that ensued when American intelligence scrambled to remake itself after ...

The CIA's International Literacy Center played a vital role in providing access to “the expression of independent ideas so desperately sought by millions.” ...

These books examine the travails of past peace talks. Many highlight the fateful consequences of reaching a bad deal. Anatomy ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

The Prodigy, a new novel by Oklahoma City attorney Dee A. Replogle, Jr., begins in a unified Berlin at the end of the millennium, ...

Step up to the plate with these must-read baseball books celebrating America’s favorite pastime recommended by the Naperville ...

Cold War in the United States. He served on the faculty of the University of Baltimore, where he taught about the Cold War’s impact on ordinary Americans’ lives, and other social, political, and ...