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Cold War

Review of Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People’s Army, by Tanja Petrović (2024)

Review of Stalin as Warlord, by Alfred J. Rieber (2022)

Review of Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy (2002), by Inga Saffron.

Review of Bolivia in the Age of Gas (2020) by Bret Gustafson

The Wars of Oppenheimer

Roundtable Review of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink (2023) by William Inboden

Prisoners of the Cold War

Review of Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (2020), by Tanya Harmer

Review of Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan (2022) by David Conrad

Master of the Game

Review of Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy (2021)

Review of Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism (2021)

Review of Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism (2021)

The End of Ambition : The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era

Review of The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era (2022)

Memory's Turn

Review of Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil by Rebecca J. Atencio (2014)

Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Lakhani (2020)

African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth A. Foster (2019)

Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown (2003)

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014)

Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War (2016)

Review of The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies (2014), by Sebastián Carassai

A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America by Grace Elizabeth Hale (2011)

The Cold War’s World History and Imperial Histories of the US and the World

Book cover of By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 by Michael J. Green

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

The Battle of Chile

The Man Who Loved Dogs, by Leonardo Padura (2013)

The Prague Spring Archive Project

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Soviet Central Asia, By Douglas Northrup (2003)

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

The Enemy Within: Cold War History in FX’s The Americans

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

Kissinger’s Shadow, by Greg Grandin (2015)

More Great Books on US Theatre History

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

Screening Vietnam: First Blood and Jaws

Must Read Books on the Vietnam War

Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World, by Hajimu Masuda (2015)

This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, by William Burrows (1998)

International History and the Global United States: More to Read

Reagan on War: A Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984, by Gail E. S. Yoshitani (2012)

Persuasion, Propaganda, and Radio Free Europe: The New Archive (No. 9)

Hungary 1956. Crimea 2014? The New Archive (No. 7)

Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism by Thomas W. Devine (2013)

Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation by Donald Raleigh (2013)

I am Cuba, for Sale (1964)

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, by James Mann (2010)

Divided Together: The United States and the Soviet Union in the United Nations, 1945-1965, by Ilya Gaiduk (2013)

What’s Missing from ‘Argo’ (2012)

Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson (2010)

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson (2006)

Book cover of The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad

Undergraduate Essay Contest Honorable Mention: The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad (2007)

Movie poster of the movie J. Edgar

J. Edgar (2011)

Movie poster of the movie When the Mountains Tremble: The Astonishing Story of Rigoberta Menchú, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Two documentaries on Guatemala’s violent civil war

Book cover of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War Updated Edition by Greg Grandin

The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War by Greg Grandin (2004)

Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York by Samuel Zipp (2010)

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba by Karen Bouwer

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba (2010)

The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War by Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko (2008)

For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler (2008)

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (2009)

Book cover of Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience by Harold L. Smith and Judith N. McArthur

Great Books on Women in US History

Great Books on Africa and the U.S.

Movie poster of the movie Johnny Tremain: He Answered Freedom's Call

Rebel With a Cause: Johnny Tremain (1957)

I am Twenty (1961, released 1964)

Book cover of Latin America's Cold War by Hal Brands

Latin America’s Cold War by Hal Brands (2010)

The Old Man and the New Man in Revolutionary Cuba

Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis by James G. Blight & Philip Brenner (2002)

Book cover of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses (2002)

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