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By Linsey Armstrong In March, the Department of State celebrated Women’s History Month through a host of inspiring activities and initiatives. This year, the Department...

By Janet Deutsch Rarely do Foreign Service officers (FSOs) have the opportunity to experience the launching of a new diplomatic presence in a host nation....

By Nolan Masterson Foreign Service personnel assigned to Taipei, Taiwan, before 1979 completed their tours at the Embassy of the United States to the Republic...

By Paul Gilmer The history of A-100 classes dates back to June 7, 1924, when President Coolidge issued Executive Order 4022 establishing a Foreign Service...

By Christopher Teal When President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Ebenezer D. Bassett as Minister Resident (Ambassador) to Haiti in 1869, Bassett made history. As the...

By Jacqueline Mourot “The work of being a Public Affairs Officer was not going to wait for me to translate training into real tactics...

By Hillary LeBail and Gavin Piercy Science envoys are preeminent American scientists and engineers who, at the request of the Secretary of State, agree to...

By Julie Arrighetti For the Department of State’s Ralph J. Bunche Library, 2019 is a year of significant anniversaries. Founded in 1789, the Library has...

By Michael Liebegott Five years after the 2014 Revolution of Dignity in which the Ukrainian people demanded a democratic, Euro-Atlantic future, they headed to the...

By Tau Shanklin Roberts, Ian Arzeni and Razia Kimani The U.S. National Strategy for Counterterrorism requires the U.S. to broaden its range of partners...