As most any American who lived through the 1979-81 Iranian hostage crisis is likely to recall, 52 American embassy staffers were held prisoner by the Iranian government for a total of 444 days. It was ...

As if that wasn’t bad enough, we were hit by another energy crisis, as OPEC cut back oil production substantially. It wasn’t quite as bad as the gas lines and higher prices of the early 1970’s when ...

The seizure of 52 American diplomats as hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran confronted former President Jimmy Carter with the question of whether to intervene militarily to free them. Nearly a half ...

On January 20, 1977, President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated. He was handed a gift, cultivated by the hard work of previous presidents and their administrations. That gift was two pillars of stability ...

For 444 days in 1979–1981, Americans watched, with a mix of frustration and helplessness, the unfolding of the Iran hostage crisis and the withering of the Carter presidency. While Farber, a professor ...