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Diplomat Henry Kissinger became U.S. secretary of state in 1973, the same year he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Read about his education, wife, legacy, and more.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died, his consulting firm says. He was 100.

Henry Kissinger, a German-born American diplomat who shaped U.S. foreign policy in the second half of the 20th century, has died.

Brilliant, paranoid, ruthless are only a few words that come to mind when examining the mixed legacy of Henry Kissinger.

Margot Stern Strom, who drew on the pain of her Jewish childhood in the Jim Crow South to create one of the most widely used Holocaust education programs in American schools, died March 28 at her home in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was 81. The Boston Globe reported the cause as pancreatic cancer. Strom was a schoolteacher in 1976 when she co-founded Facing History & Ourselves, which drew on draft lessons piloted in her classroom. For three years in the mid-1980s, the U.S. Education Department denied funding for the Holocaust curriculum, in part because of consultants opposed to the cur...