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Congratulations from abroad
This telegram from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile congratulates the United States on its “marvelous feat.” It is one of many telegrams and letters from...
Letter from Geo. Jones
In a letter to Secretary of State James G. Blaine on July 2, 1889, George F. Jones thanked Blaine for commissioning Frederick Douglass to be the Minister to Haiti.
The accusation
Formed in May 1938 the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated disloyalty among American citizens. It became extremely powerful during the Cold War...
Unprovoked attack
On August 3, 1964, one day after receiving word of a possible attack on the U.S.S. Maddox, the State Department in Washington, DC, sent these instructions to...
Vietnam, 1975
This telegram—the last message from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam—was sent on April 29, 1975. President Gerald R. Ford had ordered the evacuation of...
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