Few today recall that America’s winning Cold War strategy against the Soviet Union was centered on a strategic framework much bigger than just military might and yet underpinned all statecraft and ...

The document that largely defined American foreign policy through the Cold War years was written anonymously by a prickly and melancholic Midwesterner who spent much of the rest of his life disavowing ...

It's hard for us to imagine the world of George F. Kennan '25 as anything but newsreel footage. The Long Telegram, the Marshall Plan, the vocabulary of "containment" and "rollback": these are the ...

George Frost Kennan, who died last week in Princeton, N.J., at 101, was an insecure outsider from Milwaukee, Wis., who was embraced, in ways that sometimes made him squirm, by the clubby coterie of ...

When the American diplomat George Kennan developed his policy of containment in the late 1940s, the Soviet Union had just been an ally of the United States in the biggest war ever fought. It had yet ...

Historian Wallance (The Woman Who Fought an Empire) delivers a riveting biography of American journalist George Kennan (1845–1924), who traveled in Siberia and investigated czarist Russia’s ...

George Kennan, the great statesman and visionary, whose 100th birthday Princeton celebrates this week, was a miserable outcast as an undergraduate. His experience is worth remembering, especially two ...

Henry Stimson, as secretary of state in the late 1920s, famously shut down Washington's code-breaking "black chamber" on the grounds that, as he later put it, "gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Grace Kennan Warnecke is a Daughter of George Kennan with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2018 Speech. Most common tag: Cold War. Grace ...