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Kresge Library > Services > Instruction > Pathfinders > Cold War America

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By:

Daniel F Ring Reference Librarian

Phone: (248) 370-2498 E-mail: ring@oakland.edu

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ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Ref. D 843 .A668 1994
This is a one-volume work; not scholarly.

Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era. Ref. E 743.5 .K57 1996
Covers people and events; not scholarly.

United States Intelligence: An Encyclopedia. Ref. JK 468 .I6 U57 1990

The Cold War, 1945-1991. Ref. D 839.5 .C65 1992
Three volumes. Vol. 1 covers leaders in the US and western Europe; vol. 2 covers leaders in the USSR, Eastern Europe, China and the Third World; vol. 3 covers chronology, history, concepts, events, organizations, bibliography and archives.

Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II. Ref. D 843 .E46 1999
Four volumes alphabetically arranged by country but vol. 1 covers topics like Roots of War, maps, alliances, and treaties and conflicts.

Encyclopedia of US Foreign Relations. Ref. E 183.7 .E53 1997
This is a four-volume scholarly work.

Encyclopedia of Cold War Politics. Ref E 840 .T57 2000
Non-scholarly.

DICTIONARIES

Dictionary of American Diplomatic History. Ref. E 183.7 .F58 1993

Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda. Ref. E 183.7 .M325 2004

PERIODICAL INDEXES

History

America History and Life

Historical Abstracts - Covers Modern Europe.

JSTOR - Go to the advanced screen and click on history.

New York Times Historical (1851-2003)

Social Sciences

Social Science Citation Index - Coverage is 1980-current.

Columbia International Affairs Online

Social Sciences Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts

"REFERENCE" BOOKS

The Cold War Reference Guide. Ref. D 843 .S3365 1996
Covers chronology, important leaders, highlights of the cold war and a general history.

The Longman Companion to America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1941-1998. Ref. D 840 .Y68 1999
Good for conferences and summits, treaties, glossary, biographies, crises and conflicts, and chronology.

INTERNET SITES

Meta Sites

WWW-VL History :The Cold War History 1945-1991 - Covers:

Bibliographies | Virtual and Presidential Libraries | Timelines | Maps

Organizations and Journals | Chronological History | Geographical | Topics

Overviews

Cold War Policies 1945-1991

Cold War 1945-1960

Cold War: a Brief History

Discussion Sites

H-Diplo

H-1960's

Documents

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, The Cold War

National Security Archive Click on documents at the top.

Cold War Files: Interpreting History Through Documents

Internet Resources for Declassified Documents

Annals of Communism

Conelrad
Documents from the old emergency broadcast system. This is an important source for American culture during the Cold War.

Historic Government Publications from World War II

Revelations from the Russian Archive

Foreign Relations of the United States
"The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises more than 350 individual volumes. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies."

National Security Archive (George Washington University)

Documentary supplement to the article "Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall." Contains 18 documents from Soviet and American archives.

At Cold War's End. This is a book from the CIA. It covers the end of the Cold War.

Central Intelligence Agency. Electronic Reading Room.
You can search by 25 top documents or order new documents.

Avalon Project at Yale Law School.1961-1963 - Missle Crises and aftermath

Cold War International History Project - Covers:

• The Warsaw Pact
• The 1953 East German Uprising
• The Korean War
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The End of the Cold War
• The 1980-81 Polish Crisis
• The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Bibliographies

Cold War Bibliography - Covers:

• Recent Books on the Cold War
• Concise annotated bibliography
• Institutions of the Cold War
• Economic Impact of the Cold War
• Comparative and International Aspects of the Cold War
• The Cold War and American Culture
• The Production of Knowledge During the Cold War
• The Evolution of Science Policy and Research Funding
• Miscellaneous subjects
• Annotated Filmography

Maps

The Cold War 1945-1960

Resources

Cold War Project - Covers:

• Top Secret East European Intelligence documents
• Soviet disinformation
• Wall in Berlin ,  Soviet tanks in Berlin,  Uprising in East Berlin,   Died trying to escape,  East Berliners
• Budapest 1956,  Hungarian Revolution
• Czechoslovakia 1968
• Poland 1956,  1970,  1976, 1980, 1981, 1989,   Martial Law
• Afghanistan 1979
• Top secret Soviet Politburo materials
• Defectors
• Our agents and double agents
• Their agents and double agents
• Spy vs. Spy: The KGB vs. the CIA
• Duping the Soviets: The Farewell Dossier
• Defectors from the West
• Cold War Reconnaissance
• Submarines and the Cold War
• Soviet Gulags
• The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War
• Terrorists and Cold War
• Read more,  Did you read it yet? - we recommend this month

Cold War Hot links

Cold War (from the BBC) - Covers the Korean War, Cuban Missle crises, JFK, end of the USSR and more

Cold War (from Yahoo) - Covers:

1956 Hungarian Uprising Berlin Airlift Cuban Missile Crisis Espionage Hollywood Blacklist Korean War McCarthyism	Nuclear Arms Race People Prague Spring Red Scare Space Race Vietnam War

Cold War Through Desert Storm - There must be over 200 links arranged in no particular order. Includes timelines, maps, songs, submarines people and events. Includes entire books that are now out of print.