US Foreign Policy Archives

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March 14, 1970: SS Columbia Eagle Mutiny

Two U.S. merchant seamen mutinied against the captain and crew aboard the SS Columbia Eagle, as it crossed the Pacific during the Vietnam War.

May 27, 1972: First African Liberation Day Demonstration on the National Mall

The first African Liberation Day drew some 60,000 demonstrators in cities across the United States and Canada, including one on the National Mall in Washington D. C.

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

Book — Non-fiction. By Jason Stanley. 2026. 272 pages.
A global call to action for those who wish to preserve democracy — in the United States and abroad — before it is too late.

Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here

Book — Non-fiction. By Jelani Cobb. 2025. 496 pages.
Collection of dispatches, mostly published in The New Yorker.

Jan. 27, 1975: Church Committee Formed

The Church Committee was an investigation into the covert operations of the U.S. intelligence community, including the FBI, CIA, and NSA, and their attacks on subversives and “enemies of the state.”

War! What Is It Good For?

Book — Non-fiction. By Kimberley Phillips Boehm. 2014. 360 pages.
Examines how Black people’s participation in the nation’s wars and their protracted struggles for equal citizenship galvanized a vibrant antiwar activism that reshaped their struggles for freedom.

Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War — An Oral History

Book — Non-fiction. By Wallace Terry. 1985. 320 pages.
Oral histories of twenty Black veterans who tell their stories of being in the Vietnam War.

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

Book — Non-fiction. By Molly Crabapple. 2026. 480 pages.
The story of the Jewish Labor Bund, a secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist organization that fought for dignity and equality, not in an imagined homeland in Palestine but “here where we live.”