Links to Additional Material for History 622
Graduate Seminar: Cold War America

Professor Catherine Lavender

Research Information:
On Starting your research
On using libraries, archives, and the WWW as a starting point for research
On doing online library research, including guidelines for evaluating websites
Researching links, including search engines, libraries, historical sites, archives, museums, and map sites

Supplementary Information about the Course:
On the elements of a monograph
On writing book reviews
On doing oral histories
A Guide to Citing and Footnotes, including electronic resources, for preparing History papers.

A Few Topical Links for the Era Addressed in the Course:

General Cold War Information:
Mount Holyoke Professor Vincent Ferraro provides an extensive list of Documents relating to U.S. Foreing Policy during the Cold War.

World War II:
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum site, featuring 10,000 Digitized Documents.
World War II documents from the Yale University Avalon Project.

The Atomic Age:
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki documents from the Yale University Avalon Project.
The Atomic Archive, from AJ Multimedia.
The Enola Gay Exhibit as originally conceived by the Smithsonian Institution in 1995, before political backlash against it forced the Smithsonian to mount a blandly uncontroversial version.
"Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 ," a 1998 report from the Brookings Institution.

Origins of the Cold War:
"A Decade of American Foreign Policy -- Basic Documents 1941-1949," from the Avalon Project at Yale University.
The "Cold War International History Project," from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The Harvard University Harvard Project for Cold War Studies.
The Library of Congress's Soviet Archives Exhibit.

Post-War Presidencies:
The American Experience (PBS) provides a list of essays addressing the lives of featured Presidents, which include the following Cold War Era presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Dwight Eisenhower; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Lyndon Johnson; Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan.
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, featuring Online documents and images.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, including a Site Index pinpointing online materials available.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, including online access to LBJ's telephone recordings.
Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum.

Cold War Culture and Politics:
University of Pennsylvania English Professor Al Filreis's Guide to The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s.
The oddly-titled Senator Joe McCarthy -- A Multimedia Celebrationnonetheless contains some original documents and video clips.

Cuban Missile Crisis:
ThinkQuest's Fourteen Days in October, an excellent introduction to the issues adn documents.
Mount Holyoke Professor Vincent Ferraro provides an extensive list of Documents relating to U.S. Foreing Policy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Vietnam War:
The American Experience (PBS) Vietnam Online site.
Mount Holyoke Professor Professor Vincent Ferraro's Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy -- Vietnam.

Civil Rights, the New Left, and Feminism:
National Civil Rights Museum
Martin Luther King Papers Project, Stanford University.
Martin Luther King's famous "The Negro is Your Brother", Atlantic Monthly, also known as his "Letter from the Birmingham Jail."
Malcolm X Speaks! provides valuable audio files.
The Free Speech Movement Archives
The University of Virginia's Psychedelic Sixties website.
Duke University's Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement.

Watergate:
The Watergate Scandal, a giant site.
The National Archives's Watergate Documents site.
The Washington Post (which broke the story) presents a 25th Anniversary Site loaded with materials.

Prepared by Professor Catherine Lavender for History 624 (U.S. History, 1900-1940), The Department of History, The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York, Summer Semester 2000. Send email to lavender@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
Last modified: Saturday 28 October 2000.