Archaeologists from Durham University used Cold War-era American spy satellite images to locate the site of the battle. This battle, fought between Arab Muslims and the Sassanid Empire, occurred ...

Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn't a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a high-stakes race between the U.S., the Soviet Union, and their allies, the ...

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For decades, the CIA's CORONA spy satellite program photographed millions of square miles of Earth in total secrecy, ...

This unit has been developed in conjunction with CFR Education from the Council on Foreign Relations and is a part of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Teaching Literacy through History resources, ...

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This collection of resources facilitates critical analysis of a pivotal moment in U.S. foreign policy history. It contains a brief historical overview, a curated set of primary source documents, a ...