by Beatrice Camp

by Mary Thompson-Jones

by Anne Barbaro

by Renee Earle

by Ken Moskowitz

by Jonathan B. Rickert

by Philip Brown

by Renee M. Earle

by Gregory Orr

by Gregory John Orr

The National Museum of American Diplomacy
by Jane Carpenter-Rock

by Susan Clyde

American speaker programs were long a staple of US Information Agency (USIA) programs overseas. Not all went as planned.

by Christopher Datta

by Hans Tuch

Dr. Khaled al-Asaad, a Syrian archaeologist and the head of antiquities for the ancient city of Palmyra was publicly beheaded by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2015. This 2002 picture shows al-Asaad in front of a first century sarcophagus from Palmyra. Photograph: Marc Deville/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

Moved by the international outcry over ISIS destruction in Iraq and Syria, and with the Syrian state in disarray, the Congress in 2016 enacted emergency legislation to block the importation of illegally acquired Syrian antiquities to the United States. The State Department also began to take a serious interest in the relationship between terrorism and the destruction and trafficking of antiquities.

by Larry Schwartz
Adapted from Newberry Series Lecture at Dacor-Bacon House
Washington, D.C., July 13, 2018

by Mike Anderson

by Michael McCarry

by Bob Baker

by Beatrice Camp