Iraq is the first autocratic and Muslim-majority country that the United States has attempted to democratize since Sept. 11. Regime change in Iraq was part of the broader U.S. project to plant democracy in the Middle ...

Rex Brynen, chair of the Middle East Studies Program at McGill University, argues that Hamas won an overwhelming victory in Palestine not because it ran on an Islamist platform, and perhaps contrary to conventional ...

When American forces took over Saddam Hussein's palaces and ministries during the invasion of 2003, they also captured all of Iraq's government documents. Williamson Murray, professor emeritus of history at The Ohio State ...

Why did Iran's pro-democracy movement fail? Mark Gasiorowski, director of the International Studies Program at Louisiana State University, argues the movement failed because its leaders opted to pursue incremental, ...

Dr. Stephanson is James P. Shenton Associate Professor at Columbia University. He specializes in 20th century American foreign relations as well as history and theory.

Dr. Coffman speaks on the U.S. regular army in the 1920s and 1930s.

Showing of a powerful documentary about the United Nations mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Known as “Africa's first world war” because of the involvement of nine nations in the region, the fighting began ...

Peter Shane and Alexander Domrin compare the use of emergency powers and controversy surrounding them in the United States and Russia.

Melani McAlister is Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at George Washington University. She writes and teaches about media and popular culture, foreign policy, religion, U.S. cultural history, ...

The past few years have seen a surge of interest in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. What sparked this recent interest in ancient Greece and Rome? Allen traces American interest in the classics dates back to the Founding ...