From tearing it down to making it a museum for the study of corruption and autocracy, Democrats pitch alternative uses for ...

The Marshall Plan to rebuild post-World War II Europe has been acclaimed as the most successful foreign assistance program in U.S. history.  The plan, officially known as the European Recovery Program ...

A coup toppled his government in 1948, and democracy would not reemerge in Venezuela for another decade. By then Betancourt had learned his lesson: He shared power with other major parties, a move ...

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Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings fought till the end. In refusing to be ceremonial, she left a nation forever altered by her ...

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Mahmoud Abbas, a Palestinian politician and founding member of Fatah, was one of the 1948 refugees who were relocated to ...

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George A. Wilson was a solid, kindly man who was a sort of “everyman” sort of fellow. The Des Moines Register recalled George ...

President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 as National American Indian Heritage Month.