Category: Eyewitness
Interns Reflect on Their Experiences at the State Department
Deja Gainey and Eric Kindelan were interns in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs (H) at the State Department during the Fall Semester of 2018.
Operation Vittles
A Recipe Book. An Airlift. A Song.
By Prudence Bushnell (U.S. Ambassador, Retired)
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 … Read more
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.