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Cold War

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)

The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies (2014)

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

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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 (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)

Great Books on Women in US History

Great Books on Africa and the U.S.

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

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

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

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