A Firsthand Account of a CIA Officer in Saigon
The CIA struggled to keep its operation in Vietnam going until the very fall of Saigon.
Final Fiasco – The Fall of Saigon
Newly declassified documents and fresh insight from Frank Snepp, the CIA's chief analyst in Vietnam during 1975, present a revealing new picture of the chaotic final days of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, before enemy forces captured Saigon on April 30
Harry Houdini Could Escape Anything—But What About a Lockdown?
While pondering the pandemic, read about the greatest getaway artist ever
1937 Labor Board Case Upheld Workers’ Right to Organize
The court expanded the Gibbons standard to include labor relations and other activities with even an indirect effect on interstate commerce.
Hitler Celebrated His 50th—Then Went to War
On Hitler’s 50th, adoring Germans hailed their leader for making their country a great power again and for stopping short of the all-out war they so feared—or so they thought.
When Russia and the U.S. Worked Together
A new book explores the unraveling of a once-promising military alliance between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
When Truth Spoke to Power
Freedom Rider Jerome Smith stood up to Robert Kennedy with shocking candor about violence against black Americans
Sergeant York: The German Backlash
The Berlin government ordered a historian to write a report calling York's exploit an American lie.
Senegalese Tirailleurs: The Forgotten Infantrymen of World War II
Have a question about an artifact? Ask World War II magazine.
Online Exclusive: How ‘OK’ Became OK With Americans
A 19th-century journalism fad made the abbreviation central to our lingo
Fighting Fascism on the Silver Screen
Resistance isn't always glorious in real life, nor in Jean-Pierre Melville's 'Army of Shadows.'
