The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest ...

WASHINGTON (WHSV) - Over 60 years ago on Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation in a televised speech about U.S. spy planes’ discovery of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. Kennedy ...

In today’s highly charged political environment, in which a president’s handling of international crises, however competent or inept, is immediately subject to hyperbole and sanctification by ...

Jacqueline Kennedy eavesdropped through a White House door during the crisis. Sept. 13, 2011— -- President Kennedy, a student of history and President Lincoln, joked darkly after his triumph in ...

Delegates raise their hands in a vote of 19-1 approving the United State' decision to take steps against Cuba, during a meeting of the Organization of American States, called by President Kennedy, to ...

Today’s Thanksgiving Quote of the Day is by John F. Kennedy. In this article, read about the Quote of the Day by John F.

Renata Keller received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world ...

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Tomorrow will mark the thirteenth day of what future historians might well dub the “Iranian nuclear missile crisis.” Set off by the overwhelming Israeli air campaign against Iran begun on June 13, the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...