United Nations

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948, is the foundational international legal document defining and criminalizing genocide. It obligates signatory states to prevent and punish acts intended to…

The Charter of the United Nations, signed on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, established the UN as an international organization aimed at maintaining peace, promoting human rights, and fostering social and economic progress after World War II. The Charter outlines a commitment to preventing war,…

The Yalta Conference was a pivotal meeting during World War II, where leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union agreed on the final strategy to defeat Nazi Germany and began shaping the post-war world. They planned the creation of the United Nations, set terms for…

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The “conversion” of Arthur Vandenberg, told by a former Secretary of State, his sometime adversary but also his friend</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> “Almost every time a serious disarmament effort got under way, it barely managed to move forward an inch or two before a great world cataclysm intervened”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The behind-the-scenes struggle in 1948 between the President and the State Department</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The American Experience With Foreign Aid</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The half-remembered Korean conflict was full of surprises, and nearly all of them were unpleasant</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Britain’s poorest, most dismal African colony, and what he saw there fired him with a fervor that helped found the United Nations.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In an exchange of letters, a man who had an immeasurable impact on how the great struggle of our times was waged looks back on how it began.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Why the UN was in trouble from the start</span></p>