Inward Empire

The Diem Experiment (Part Five)

In November 1963, a faction of South Vietnamese generals overthrew and assassinated Ngo Dinh...

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The Diem Experiment (Part Four)

After destroying his rivals in the Battle of Saigon, President Diem sets out to build a new...

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The Diem Experiment (Part Three)

In the 1950s, most Americans viewed the Cold War as a battle between freedom and tyranny. There...

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The Diem Experiment (Part Two)

Back in Saigon in 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem becomes premier of a country shattered by war and...

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The Diem Experiment (Part One)

For nine years at the height of the Cold War, America's global crusade against communism rested...

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Soldiers of Capital (Part Two)

After sending the Molly Maguires to the scaffold in 1877, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency...

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Soldiers of Capital (Part One)

Pinkerton's National Detective Agency was 19th-century America's premier private police force,...

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From Camelot to Abilene

In a country as big and diverse as America, stories are crucially important to our sense of...

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1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part Two)

When a railroad employee walks off the job in Baltimore, it triggers a violent chain of events...

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1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part One)

If you think 2016 is a turbulent year for the United States, try 1877. The country is, as one...

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Buffalo Bill, the Mythic West, and the Imperial Frontier

William F. Cody - better known as Buffalo Bill - did more than any other person to translate the...

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The Unending Civil War of Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce was a Civil War veteran and the author of the most visceral and unsettling fiction...

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Sword of the Wilderness (Part Two)

Forty years after the Pequot War, a new conflict threatens to tear New England apart. Decades of...

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Sword of the Wilderness (Part One)

The year is 1620. It is a time of upheaval and apocalyptic fears in England. In the midst of...

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