Cold War Era

Background and Context  --  HOLLIS Subject Terms  --  Periodical Articles  --  Document Collections

Background and Context  

The Oxford handbook of the Cold War, ed. by Richard H. Immerman, Petra Goedde. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 660 p.
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The Longman companion to America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1941-1998, by John W. Young. 2nd ed. New York : Addison Wesley Longman 1999, 309 p.
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Encyclopedia of the Cold War, Thomas S. Arms. NY : Facts on File, 1994, 628 p. 
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The Cold War encyclopedia, by Thomas Parrish. New York : H. Holt, 1996, 490 p.
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Encyclopedia of cold war politics, by Brandon Toropov and Elin Woodger.  NY: Facts On File, Inc., 2000, 242 p. 
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HOLLIS Subject Terms

Cold War

Periodical Articles 

For Newspapers, see the Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes

Finding Articles in General and Popular Periodicals (North America and Western Europe): 20th Century

Document Collections

Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974

Cold War: voices of confrontation and conciliation offers transcripts of interviews of largely US and Russian officials

Cold War History: Collections from the Wilson Center Digital Archive

Origins of the Cold War: Open Access Primary Sources, by Amy Dye-Reeves, offers links to digital collections.

CIA Historical Collections offers declassified documents. (Central Intelligence Agency)

Cold War Origins (1939-1950s) offers documents largely from Russian and Bulgarian archives. (Wilson Center Digital Archives)

Cuban Missile Crisis: NSA Documents (National Security Archive)

Documentation on Early Cold War U.S. Propaganda Activities in the Middle East (National Security Archive)

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War (1940s-1991). (Mt. Holyoke College)

Historical Collection on Ronald Reagan, Intelligence, and the End of the Cold War (Central Intelligence Agency, CIA)

Ideological Foundations of the Cold War (1945-1952) offers photographs, oral histories and other material. (Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum)

Origins of the Cold War. (Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum)

Cold War (Avalon Project}

Cold War Diplomacy - Defense Treaties of the United States (Avalon Project}