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More than 60 years after the deaths of the U.N. chief and his team, the victims’ families believe the answer may lie in Washington’s and…

A French death warrant against Dag Hammarskjold comes to light, Maurin Picard reports.  By Maurin Picard PassBlue Six decades after the unexplained death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and 15 other people in a plane crash in Central Africa, a new discovery in French

Machiavellian treachery on Australia’s doorstep played a key role in the assassination of a US president, according to a new book by historian Dr Greg

Nolan's Africa will be the first book on Sidney Nolan written with access to the newly opened Sidney Nolan archives

This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show will have a “who am I” quiz for listeners about influential figures who helped shape the 20th century, and we will publish profiles for each one. You can read the other pieces in the series here and here. The idea of a global institution has captivated thinkers since Immanuel Kant in the 18th century. But a body set up to create and maintain world peace and security needs the right people to make it work. When the United Nations was created in 1945, old sentiments — seen in ...