We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. Ronald Reagan, 1985 Inaugural Address
By Nathan Pyles
Ronald Reagan began his presidency with one of his favorite phrases; invoking his vision of America as “the shining city on a hill.” On the eve of his election in 1980 he...
By Nathan Pyles
Fifty years ago on June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy in this landmark American University commencement address, surprised the world by announcing the U.S. suspension of above-ground nuclear weapons testing. By...
By Chuck Baynton
The dawn of the nineteenth century saw widespread, legally sanctioned markets where black Africans were bought and sold by white Europeans. By century’s end, that practice was gone. The United States was...
Ken Adelman’s ‘Reagan at Reykjavik’ adds to the growing body of literature covering the hastily arranged 1986 U.S. and Soviet Union summit held in Reykjavik, Iceland. No superpower summit since the 1945...
The world recently marked the 25th anniversary of the historic Reykjavik summit, when President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met…