Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shortly after America had achieved its independence from Great Britain, the new nation confronted a threat from the Ottoman ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Abby Mullen on American geopolitics in their infancy. Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the ...

With U.S. and European strikes now pounding Libyan government positions, a new chapter is being written in the long and bloody history of Western military intervention in North Africa. At present, it ...

Some Republican leaders have compared the war in Iraq with President Thomas Jefferson's historic confrontation with the Barbary pirates. But the whole story does not necessarily serve the Republican ...

Throughout most of its nearly 250-year history, the United States has been involved in conflict somewhere on Earth. While US history frequently casts a positive light on the nation’s wars and other ...

We have met the new Barbary pirates. And they are us. We fought twin wars against the original Barbary pirates in the early 1800s, only to become their look-a-like. On Dec. 10, the United States ...

The United States and Israel launched “Operation Epic Fury” on Feb. 28, attacking Iranian military and leadership targets from the air. The opposition to America’s “forever wars” in Iraq and ...

Shortly after America had achieved its independence from Great Britain, the new nation confronted a threat from the Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Beginning in 1784, raiders from ...