Historians and History: The Cold War

From: ABC-CLIO [mailto:abc-clio@abc-clio.com]

Introducing Historians on History: The Cold War

It was an era of pervasive political tension, nuclear-fueled nightmares, and intense diplomacy: a time when regional and national disputes turned battlefields into test-case ideological showdowns. It was an era of superpower standoffs: confrontations between Western capitalism and Soviet and Chinese communism that affected every corner of the globe and shaped world affairs for almost the entire second half of the 20th century. It was the Cold War, an era whose story has never been completely told—until now.

As part of a new series of podcasts featuring our contributing historians and editors, tune into our latest Historians on History with renowned scholar and editor Spencer C. Tucker as he discusses The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History. From the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, The Encyclopedia of the Cold War provides authoritative information on all military conflicts, battlefield and surveillance technologies, diplomatic initiatives, important individuals and organizations, national histories, economic developments, societal and cultural events, and more. With nearly 1,300 entries, plus topical essays and an extraordinarily rich documents volume, it is the first and only major reference on the Cold War to take full advantage of recently opened Russian, Eastern European, and Chinese state archives, giving the work a truly global, fully rounded perspective that other references on the subject cannot provide.

Watch and listen as Dr. Tucker illustrates the continued discourse on the Cold War, covering key events and issues such as the Bay of Pigs in 1962, which brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war, and the evolution of the United States’ combative relationship with North Korea. Students will learn how these and many other aspects of the Cold War have helped shape our own era.

Sample entries, the author biography, and podcasts transcripts are also available on the podcast site.

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Gilder Lehrman: New Podcast on Reconstruction

From: Gilder Lehrman Institute [mailto:gli@gilderlehrman.org]


NEW PODCAST: RECONSTRUCTION

Eric Foner, Professor of History at Columbia University, explains why an understanding of Reconstruction– and why it failed — is critical to understanding the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. To hear this podcast, click here:

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