The U.S.'s latest involvement in Venezuela's government is part of a long tradition of U.S. interference – from economic sanctions to covert operations to overthrow governments – in that region.
A year into his second term, President Donald Trump is wasting little time scouring American history for precedents that he ...
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World / Behind today’s headlines is a history of imperial outrage—including a Philadelphia contract man who wreaked havoc in early-20th-century Venezuela and helped oust a president. Greg Grandin ...
For presidents of both parties, Latin America has served as a wellspring of perpetual reinvention and the source of much of their ideological creativity.
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The U.S. ousting of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is just the latest chapter in a long, troubling history of American ...
00:08 Greg Grandin, Peter V and C. Vann Woodward Professor at Yale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, author of America America: a new history of the new world [originally recorded ...
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NMAH copy 39088014671093 Purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, ...
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The second of a two-part American Prestige series, exploring US–Latin American relations from the Civil War to today, and why revolutionary currents still shape the region. Daniel Bessner and Derek ...