AP US History
Cold War Era
Research Materials
Resources from the World Wide Web:
General Resources
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century from Kingwood College Library, Texas. For each decade of the 20th century, information is grouped under the following categories: Art & Architecture, Books & Literature, Fads & Fashion, Education, Historic Events & Technology, Music, Persons & Personalities, Theater & Film. Includes interesting photographs, links, Internet Quiz, and Subject Guides. http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html
Best of History Websites. A list of websites and lesson plans pertaining to the Cold War Era. http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_ColdWarEra.shtml
A Biography of America. This is a companion Web site to the video series offered by Annenberg Foundation and Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Topics include: Rise of Capitalism, Slavery, Civil War, 1920s, FDR and the Depression, World War II, 1950s, 1960s, etc. http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/
CIA Electronic Reading Room Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The CIA has digitized thousands of formerly secret documents declassified due to Freedom of Information Act requests. These collections cover CIA involvement in the 1954 coup in Guatemala, Cold War atomic spies, and the 1961 Bay of Pigs affair. The site also offers 896 analytic reports on the Soviet Union produced between 1951 and 1991. http://www.foia.cia.gov/default.asp
Digital History. Includes Resource Guides by Period and by Topic, Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook - An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present, Interactive Timelines, Encyclopedia of American History, Biographical Directory of American History, and much more. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/default.cfm
FirstGov. WWW information portal for the United States Federal Government. Links to Workers.gov and Mapstats.gov, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches of the U.S. Government, as well as State and Local Governments. http://www.first.gov
Library of Congress An outstanding and invaluable site for American history and general studies. Contains primary and secondary documents, exhibits, map collections, prints and photographs, sound recordings and motion pictures. The LOC's American Memory Historical Collections, a must-see, contains the bulk of digitalized materials. http://www.loc.gov
People's Century The site is based on a 26-episode PBS television series and features a teacher's guide, a timeline, a thematic overview, and RealAudio excerpts http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/
World Wide Web Virtual Library: History Central Catalog This is a master directory to other Virtual Library history sites that is maintained by Lynn H. Nelson at the University of Kansas and is arranged by the following categories: Research: Methods and Materials, Eras and Epochs, Historical Topics, and By Countries and Regions. http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/
World Events
The Berlin Airlift Extensive information about the post-World War II Berlin airlift of 1948-1949. Working from original source material from the Harry S Truman Presidential Library, this site presents introductory material, photos, and documents of interest to history buffs as well as students. A part of the Truman Digital Archives Project Whistle Stop. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/berlin_airlift.htm
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary A collection of declassified documents and other information about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Includes photographs, audio clips, submarine naval charts, a detailed chronology, and analyses. Also includes materials from the 40th Anniversary Conference held in Havana in 2002 and links to related news articles and publications. From the National Security Archive at George Washington University. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
JFK-Dallas An online exhibit from the Dallas Morning News about the John F. Kennedy Assassination on November 22, 1963 with first-person accounts of the assassination by employees of The Dallas Morning News. http://www.dallasnews.com/jfk/
The Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use by Paul Halsall. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook4.html#since1945
The Wars for Vietnam This site was produced by students out of Vassar college and provides an overview of the Vietnam war, primary documents and photos, and links to other related sites http://vietnam.vassar.edu/
Arts
American Photography: A Century of Images. Companion website for PBS program about photography in 20th Century. http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/
The Hollywood 10 Learn about the 10 Hollywood screenwriters and director who were targeted in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). This website is from the University of California, Berkeley Libraries. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html
Fashion
American Vintage Blues http://www.vintageblues.com/history_main.htm
Fashion Era http://www.fashion-era.com
Government and Politics
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) This searchable and browsable site houses a large collection of historical materials and ongoing discussions by governments and scholars on all sides of the Cold War. Established by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.intro
For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan Online commemorative exhibit of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. economic aid program for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. The site features a timeline, photographs, political cartoons, letters, and printed material that "document the early days of this acclaimed international initiative." From the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/
Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact Currently provides approximately 350 recently declassified documents from archives of former Warsaw Pact countries that reveal previously hidden aspects of Cold War military strategy. At present, the Parallel History Project (PHP)—a Zurich-based group formed in 1999 by historians, archivists, and former government officials—offers documents in five groups. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php
Cold War Policies, 1945–1991 Steven Schoenherr, Professor of History, University of San Diego.
Arranged into eight chronological sections—from “Negotiation, 1945” to “Revolution, 1989–1991”—this site presents several dozen primary and secondary materials relating principally to the military and foreign policy dimensions of the Cold War. http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html
Lifestyles and Social Trends
Food Timeline http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html
Dining Through the Decades http://www.leitesculinaria.com/features/dining.html
Media
All Music Guide http://allmusic.com/
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame http://www.rockhall.com/home/default.asp
History in Song http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html
Military and Intelligence
Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War Explores how “nuclear powered submarines played major roles in American policy and strategy from the 1950s to the 1990s.” Tells how the “machines were built, operated and utilized, [and] what life was like for the sailors on board and their families back home.” Also has a history of submarines and a Cold War timeline. From the Smithsonian National Museum on American History. http://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/
At Cold War’s End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 Declassified CIA documents from 1989-1991 incorporate a 1999 study of the dazzling period from 1989-1991 which signaled the end of the Cold War. Read the Foreword and Preface of this long document for a good explanation of the project and its expectations. Also includes a chronology of events and an overview of the historical events. From The Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) of the Central Intelligence Agency and the George W. Bush Center for Presidential Studies at Texas A&M University. http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html
The Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum This virtual museum is "dedicated to the Civil Defense personnel of the United States who worked throughout the Cold War to try to protect the public from nuclear attack." Among the exhibits are bomb shelter tours, illustrated inventories of shelter supplies and toilet facilities, radiation kids, a sizable art gallery of official posters from the Office of Civil Defense, and audio files of radio warnings. http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/
Korea: The Unfinished War "To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended fifty years ago." This companion to an American RadioWorks program from July 2003 includes audio clips and transcripts, oral histories, maps, related links, and commentary from reporters, historians, and scholars. Also features illustrated essays about the effect of the Korean War on the Cold War and integration in the armed forces. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/korea/
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies Companion to a PBS NOVA program that "chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called 'atom spies' in the 1940's." Features information about "translations of Soviet cables decrypted back in the 1940s by the Venona Project," the U.S. government's effort to intercept messages from Soviet military intelligence. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/
Submarines, Secrets, and Spies Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) NOVA program that "goes in search of clues to two tragedies of the Cold War, the wrecks of the nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion." The site features virtual tours through two submarines, information about the U.S. Navy loaning out its submarines, and stories about life on submarines. Also includes links to related information and a program transcript. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/subsecrets/
Science and Technology
DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments "The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads the Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects." Includes a list of experiments, oral histories by the scientists and technicians involved, declassified documents, key reports, and more. Also features film clips and photographs. http://www.eh.doe.gov/ohre/
Hanford Cultural and Historic Resources Program Administered by the Department of Energy, this site provides historical information about the nuclear reactor and chemical processing facility in Hanford, WA. Information includes the history of the plutonium production facilities and a historic context statement on the effect of the Hanford site on the Native Americans. The role the site played in the Manhattan Project and the Cold War era is also covered. http://www.hanford.gov/doe/history/
Sports
Sporting News: The Vault http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/
ESPNs Sports Century http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/
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