A very good resource on the collapse of communism in Europe from George Mason University and affiliates. 300 primary sources + interviews with scholars.
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The White House Tapes offers a unique insiders’ view into the recorded discussions of American Presidents. This section is on US foreign policies.
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When historians discuss American actions in the Cold War, usually the first texts they cite are the Long Telegram, which Kennan composed in February, 1946, and the so-called X article, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” which he published, in Foreign Affairs, a year and a half later. Vietnam seems the lineal offspring of those pieces. Was Kennan misunderstood? The question is at the heart of any assessment of his career.
Read Menand’s review of Gaddis’ bio of Kennan
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Cold War Edition. Contents:
7 A Literature So Immense: The Historiography of Anticommunism
Marc J. Selverstone
13 The Cold War and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Jeff Woods
19 History and Haggar Pants: the Cold War on Tape
Mitchell Lerner
25 “I am too young to die”
Donna Alvah
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Twentieth-century Russian music is often thought of as dark and brooding, a reflection of life under the thumb of a brutal state. When it was funny, it usually had a kind of gallows humor.
Yet many of the same composers whose concert works often reflected a dark reality also wrote cartoon music for kids.
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The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, but few of the news stories marking the anniversary have explained the event’s full significance. The Cold War had been raging for 14 years before the wall went up on Aug. 13, 1961. How could its collapse, on Nov. 9, 1989, have heralded the Cold War’s demise?
Fred Kaplan explains at Slate
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This George Orwell piece was originally published by the Tribune on October 19, 1945 within two months after atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan by the only country ever to have used them to kill people and destroy cities, viz., the U.S.A. Orwell had written enough about the same (re: A. Bomb) but this particular piece was exceptional for the insights it shared about the world dispensation that lay ahead in the age of atomic weaponry. In addition, it was clear that the groundwork for his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four had been completed by this writing.
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The Woodrow Wilson School offers this tremendous resource
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