TWE History-Related Blogs and Videos

American Revolution and Early Republic

• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (April 18, 1775)
• Battle of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)
• The American Crisis, No. 1 (December 19, 1776)
• The Battle of Saratoga (October 17, 1777)
• The Battle of Yorktown (October 19, 1781)
• The Birth of the Bill of Rights (December 15, 1791)
• The Pacificus-Helvidius Debate (June 29, 1793)
• The Jay Treaty (June 24, 1795)
• Washington’s Farewell Address (published September 19, 1796)
• War of 1812 (June 18, 1812)
• The British Sack Washington (August 24, 1814)
• The Birth of the Star Spangled Banner (September 14, 1814)

National Expansion

• The Monroe Doctrine (December 2, 1823)
• Abraham Lincoln and the “Spot Resolutions” (December 22, 1847)
• A War “Unnecessarily and Unconstitutionally” Begun (January 3, 1848)
• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848)

The Civil War, Gilded Age, and Progressive Era

• The Trent Affair (November 8, 1861)
• The Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
• The Korean Expedition of 1871 and the Battle of Ganghwa (Shinmiyangyo) (June 10, 1871)
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (May 6, 1882)
• Enrique Dupuy de Lôme (February 9, 1898)
• The Sinking of the USS Maine (February 15, 1898)
• The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (December 6, 1904)
• The Taft-Katsura Memo (July 31, 1905)
• The Tampico Incident (April 9, 1914)
• The U.S. Invasion of Veracruz, Mexico (April 21, 1914)
• Pancho Villa’s Raid on Columbus, New Mexico (March 9, 1916)

World War I

• The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 28, 1914)
• Austria-Hungary Issues an Ultimatum to Serbia (July 23, 1914)
• Serbia Responds to Austria’s Ultimatum (July 25, 1914)
• The Assassination of Jean Jaures (July 31, 1914)
• Britain Declares War, the United States Declares Neutrality (August 4, 1914)
• The Sinking of the Lusitania (May 7, 1915)
• The Black Tom Explosion (July 30, 1916)
• The Zimmerman Telegram (March 1, 1917)
• Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War on Germany (April 2, 1917)
• America’s Entry into the Great War (April 6, 1917)
• The Treaty of Versailles Rejected (November 19, 1919)

Interwar Period

• The Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (August 26, 1920)
• The Kellogg-Briand Pact (August 27, 1928)
• Herbert Hoover Signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Into Law (June 17, 1930)
• The Ludlow Amendment (January 10, 1938)

World War II

• Churchill’s “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” (May 13, 1940)
• Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo, and Churchill’s “Never Surrender” Speech (June 4, 1940)
• FDR’s “Stab in the Back” Speech (June 10, 1940)
• Winston Churchill’s “Finest Hour” Speech (June 18, 1940)
• The Destroyers-for-Bases Deal (September 2, 1940)
• FDR's “Four Freedoms” State of the Union Address (January 6, 1941)
• The Lend-Lease Act (March 11, 1941)
• FDR’s “Shoot-on-Sight” Fireside Chat (September 11, 1941)
• Charles Lindbergh’s Des Moines Speech (September 11, 1941)
• The Battle of Attu (May 11, 1943)

Cold War

• Sen. Arthur Vandenberg’s Conversion to Internationalism (January 10, 1945)
• Ho Chi Minh’s 1945 Declaration of Vietnam’s Independence (September 2, 1945)
• George Kennan and the Long Telegram (February 22, 1946)
• Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech (March 5, 1946)
• The Fulbright Program (August 1, 1946)
• The Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947)
• The Marshall Plan (June 5, 1947)
• Joseph McCarthy’s Wheeling Speech (February 9, 1950)
• NSC-68 (April 14, 1950)
• Truman’s Decision to Intervene in Korea (June 27, 1950)
• General Douglas MacArthur’s Speech to Congress (April 19, 1951)
• The Bricker Amendment (February 26, 1954)
• Nikita Khrushchev’s Visit to the United States (September 15, 1959)
• JFK’s “Strategy of Peace” Speech (June 10, 1963)
• John F. Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” Speech (June 26, 1963)
• The Fight over the Panama Canal Treaties (March 16, 1978)

The Cuban Missile Crisis

• Andrei Gromyko Tells a Lie at the United Nations (September 21, 1962)
• Maj. Richard Heyser Flies a U-2 Over Cuba (October 14, 1962)
• The United States Discovers Soviet Missiles in Cuba (October 15, 1962)
• JFK Learns that Soviet Missiles Are in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day One) (October 16, 1962)
• JFK Solicits Ike’s Advice (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Two) (October 17, 1962)
• Andrei Gromyko Lies to John Kennedy (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Three) (October 18, 1962)
• JFK Campaigns While the ExCom Debates Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Four) (October 19, 1962)
• John Kennedy Fakes a Cold (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Five) (October 20, 1962)
• John Kennedy Prepares to Tell the Nation About Soviet Missiles in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Six) (October 21, 1962)
• JFK Tells the World that Soviet Missiles Are in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Seven) (October 22, 1962)
• The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (October 22, 1962)
• The OAS Endorses a Quarantine of Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Eight) (October 23, 1962)
• Eyeball to Eyeball and the Other Fellow Just Blinked (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Nine) (October 24, 1962)
• Adlai Stevenson Dresses Down the Soviet Ambassador to the UN (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Ten) (October 25, 1962)
• John Scali Has Lunch, Khrushchev Writes JFK, Castro writes Khrushchev (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Eleven) (October 26, 1962)
• Black Saturday - Near Calamities Abound as JFK Offers Khrushchev a Deal (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Twelve) (October 27, 1962)
• JFK and Khrushchev Agree to a Deal (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Thirteen) (October 28, 1962)
• Secret Soviet Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, A Coda)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (links to the full series)

Vietnam War

• Thich Quang Duc’s Self-Immolation (June 11, 1963)
• The Vietnam “Coup Cable” (August 24, 1963)
• The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (August 4, 1964)
• Congress Passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August 7, 1964)
• The First U.S. Combat Troops Arrive in Vietnam (March 8, 1965)
• General Westmoreland Says the “End Begins to Come Into View” in Vietnam (November 21, 1967)
• The Pentagon Papers (June 13, 1971)
• The Fall of Saigon (April 30, 1975)

Post-Cold War

• Congress's Vote to Authorize the Gulf War (January 12, 1991)
• Juvenal Habyarimana’s Plane Crashes and the Rwandan Genocide Begins (April 6, 1994)
• The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (September 24, 1996)

Foreign-Policy Anniversaries

• Ten Anniversaries to Note in 2022
• Ten Historical Anniversaries to Note in 2021
• Ten Historical Anniversaries to Note in 2020
• Ten Historical Anniversaries to Note in 2019
• Ten Historical Anniversaries of Note in 2018
• Ten Historical Anniversaries of Note in 2017
• Ten Historical Anniversaries of Note in 2016
• Ten Historical Anniversaries of Note in 2015
• Ten Historical Anniversaries of Note in 2014

Foreign-Policy Figures

• George C. Marshall (born December 31, 1880)
• John Foster Dulles (born February 25, 1888)
• Secretary of State Dean Acheson (born April 11, 1893)

Political Moments

• The Best (and Worst) Inaugural Addresses (2017)
• Vice Presidents on Being Vice President (2020)
• Seven Memorable Presidential Debate Moments (2020)
• Four Memorable Foreign Policy Moments in Vice-Presidential Debates (2020)

Lessons from History Video Series

• Lessons Learned: The Articles of Confederation (March 1, 1781)
• Lessons Learned: Hitler’s Rearmament of Germany (March 16, 1935)
• Lessons Learned: The Ludlow Amendment (January 10, 1938)
• History Lessons: The Munich Agreement (September 30, 1938)
• History Lessons: The America First Committee Forms (September 4, 1940)
• Lessons Learned: Japanese-American Internment During WWII (February 19, 1942)
• Lessons Learned: The Firebombing of Tokyo (March 9, 1945)
• Lessons Learned: North Atlantic Treaty Signing (April 4, 1949)
• Lessons Learned: General MacArthur’s Dismissal (April 11, 1951)
• Lessons Learned: John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)
• Lessons Learned: Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17, 1961)
• Lessons Learned: The Seizure of the USS Pueblo (January 23, 1968)
• Lessons Learned: The Tet Offensive (January 30, 1968)
• Lessons Learned: LBJ Announces He Will Not Seek Reelection (March 31, 1968)
• Lessons Learned: Richard Nixon Goes to China (February 17, 1972)
• Lessons Learned: Nelson Mandela’s Release from Prison (February 11, 1990)
• History Lessons: The Oslo Accords (September 19, 1993)
• Lessons Learned: Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack (March 20, 1995)