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This volume documents the formulation of U.S. policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean during President Nixon’s first term. Upon assuming the Presidency in January 1969, Nixon indicated that he intended to give a high priority to revitalizing relations with the region.
In 1971, Congress declared August 26th Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the passage of the 19th Amendment. Two years later “the United Nations General Assembly, proclaimed 1975 as International Women's Year in order ‘to intensify the action required to advance the status of women.’”
Secretary Dulles and President Eisenhower laid the cornerstone of the State Department’s new building in September 1957; using the same trowel that George Washington had used to lay the cornerstone of the Capitol. The new building was an extension of...Read More >>
In the 1770s, the increasingly defiant American colonies began exploring the possibility of independence from the British Government. As tensions mounted and armed conflict erupted, the colonists recognized that European nations were unlikely to conclude trade agreements with the Americans unless th...Read More >>
Thomas Jefferson was commissioned as the first Secretary of State. He had just ended an assignment as Minister to France and assumed his new duties March 22, 1790.
Thomas Jefferson served as the first Secretary of State from March 22, 1790 to December 31, 1793. Jefferson brought remarkable talents to a long career guiding ...Read More >>
The Swiss Ambassador to Cuba, Alfred Fischli, met with Secretary of State Rogers to discuss Swiss representation of U.S. interests in Cu...Read More >>
"The American Experience in Southeast Asia, 1946-1975", Washington, D.C., September 29-30, 2010
On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia.
For teachers: A curriculum guide exploring 200 years of U.S.-China relations.
