Category: Eyewitness

by Hans Tuch

Deja Gainey and Eric Kindelan were interns in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs (H) at the State Department during the Fall Semester of 2018.

by Diane Johnston

by Richard Gilbert

by Hans Tuch

A Recipe Book. An Airlift. A Song.
By Prudence Bushnell (U.S. Ambassador, Retired)

New items for May 2019

by Larry Clinton Thompson

by Hans Tuch

by David A. Langbart

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

by Bob Baker

by Beatrice Camp

by David Langbart

From the National Archives
by David Langbart

by Ralph Bresler

Link to The Text Message, at the National 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) 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, … Read more