Shutterstock The Bay of Pigs Invasion On April 17, 1961, about 1,400 Cuban exiles trained by the CIA tried to overthrow Fidel ...

Most Americans have at least a passing awareness that the United States controls a slice of land in Cuba called Guantanamo ...

The Freedom Charter was adopted in Kliptown 70 years ago, on 26 June 1955. Thousands of delegates travelled across South ...

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U.S. warplanes struck Iran’s nuclear sites in a dramatic escalation—just the latest in a long, bloody pattern. From proxy ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

Campus & Community Bay of Pigs history course has personal meaning for students whose family members participated in the invasion This week marks 64 years since the 1961 landing of Cuban exiles on the ...

Alabama celebrates their native sons who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Harvard refuses to comply with Trump administration’s demands over $9 billion Charles Dickens wasn’t ...

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State ...

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State ...