In his early Presidency, the extreme views of President Reagan towards Communism were an attempt to maintain US strength in the world & counter the Soviet threat

Sep 11, 2009 - Dawn Denmar

Setbacks in foreign policy and an economic downturn helped propel the Republican candidacy of Ronald Reagan resulting in a victory for conservatism.

Feb 7, 2009 - Michael Streich

The life and times of the 40th President of the United States is documented in this new History Channel special.

Jan 30, 2011 - Francine Brokaw

Ronald Reagan advocated tax cuts, deregulation, increased defense spending, and a balanced budget, still inspiring conservative supporters in 2011.

Oct 27, 2011 - Michael Streich

At 69, Ronald Reagan was the oldest man elected to presidential office. Here's a look at the career of this two-term president and architect of Reaganomics.

Feb 5, 2011 - Richard Cunliffe

Reagan was the first US President to discuss the possibility of an alien invasion from outer space. He mentioned the possibility on four occasions.

Oct 30, 2010 - Diane Evans

Stalin killed more people. His 350,000 secret police were worse than the 8,000 Gestapo torturers. But Hitler was the greater threat to human morality.

Mar 31, 2010 - John Anderson

When former President George W. Bush called several nations part of the "Axis of Evil, " BBC reporter Ben Anderson decided to see what people in those nations are like.

Nov 13, 2009 - Barbara DeGrande

In the early 1980s few could have predicted that within a decade the Cold War would be over.

Feb 5, 2011 - Alan Kinghorn

Gorbachev's perestroika (economic reformations) and glasnost' (openness) prepared the USSR for democratic reforms and improved Western relations.

May 13, 2012 - Eliot Elwar

Containment was the key strategy employed in US Foreign Policy throughout the Cold War against the USSR and Communism in the second half of the 20th Century

Jan 21, 2011 - Philip Sim

Confronting Communism and working toward a new world order characterized foreign policy efforts in one of the last Cold War battles: the Sandinista and Contra conflict.

Jan 5, 2010 - Michael Streich

The American image of a city on a hill began with Puritan views as God's chosen people but became secularized to define the American experiment in freedom.

Jun 19, 2010 - Michael Streich

To the world's condemnation of its firing of artillery onto a South Korean island on 23 November 2010 North Korean leaders provided a muted response. Why?

Dec 10, 2010 - Thembinkosi Lehloesa

An alarm at a Soviet monitoring station on 26 September 1983 indicated nuclear attack from America was imminent. Lieutenant Colonel Petrov had a crucial decision to make.

Aug 4, 2008 - John O'Connor

Afghanistan has resisted foreign invasions since the ancient times of Alexander the Great, who conquered the world but not the "graveyard of empires."

Feb 14, 2011 - John Kirshon

Identifying the antichrist has been a preoccupation of Christians since the persecutions of Christians in Imperial Rome but has taken on new meaning in the 20th Century.

Oct 4, 2009 - Michael Streich

Africa became an important part of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War especially with the decline of European influence in the continent

Dec 25, 2010 - Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

Fears of global Communist expansion and the establishment of a Communist world revolution made Vietnam the principal domino in Southeast Asian U.S. policy.

Feb 16, 2011 - Michael Streich

Volume one of the series including Eternity, Legacy and a story in Robert Silverberg's Far Horizons anthology introduces the asteroid/spaceship Thistledown and The Way

Apr 23, 2009 - Colin Harvey