Category: Eyewitness
Rascals, hysterical women, and bankers: Dealing with American citizens abroad, 1921
by David A. Langbart
ADST links for February 2019
Foreign Service Accounts from the Oral History Archives (ADST.ORG) Forty years ago, on January 1, 1979, the U.S. established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, simultaneously de-recognizing the Taiwan-based Republic of China. In ADST’s extensive country reader on … Continued
Why Did You Wake Us Up in the Middle of the Night?: Use of NIACT, 1978
by David Langbart
Why Did You Wake Us Up in the Middle of the Night? Use of NIACT, 1963
From the National Archives
by David Langbart
The Presidential Election of 1972: Analysis of Soviet Bloc Opinion
Link to The Text Message, at the National Archives
Foreign Service Accounts from the Oral History Archives
August marks the 30th anniversary of the Burmese student pro-democracy demonstrations that began on “8/8/88”. The U.S. subsequently withdrew its ambassador in protest of the military regime, beginning a hiatus in relations that lasted until 2012.
Foreign Service Accounts from the Oral History Archives (ADST.ORG)
Foreign Service Accounts from the Oral History Archives (ADST.ORG) In this issue, we offer two more ADST segments focusing on U.S. international development stories, one on the Marshall Plan and another from USAID officer Carol Peasley. -The Economic Cooperation Act, … Continued
“We Found Ourselves Living in the Midst of a Battlefield”
The Experiences of the U.S. Consulate General in Warsaw on the Outbreak of World War II September 1939
by David A. Langbart
From the National Archives
Cold War Humor, 1953
What Goes Up Must Come Down
“We Found Ourselves Living in the Midst of a Battlefield”
From the National Archives
Tribute to a Fallen Diplomat by David Langbart Nikita Khrushchev’s Memoirs: Fallout? by David Langbart
Foreign Service Accounts from the Oral History Archives (ADST.ORG)
Our upcoming Eyewitness installments will focus in part on the lives and work of USAID colleagues, highlighting the challenges and contributions of United States international development. Read their personal accounts of how they arrived at development work—often including service in the Peace … Continued
From the National Archives
Berlin Reacts to the Assassination of John F. Kennedy by David Langbart Great Britain’s Royal Wedding of 1947 by David Langbart
Uncle Sam, Matchmaker
by Ben East I pictured myself in a Peace Corps-issue hammock on an island somewhere, or crossing high glaciers in the glaring Himalayan sun. Then the recruiter called and offered Malawi. Pointless to remind her what I’d written where the … Continued