The Cold War in Our Past and Present

Cold War Resources on the World Wide Web

http://ac.acusd.edu/History/20th/coldwar0.html A chronological set of articles, images and timelines on various periods in the Cold War, also with links to maps, books, films etc.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html The Library of Congress page on "Revelations from the Russian Archives;" several topics surrounding original documents from Russian archives. Includes text describing the topic, and both Russian and English versions of original documents.

http://metalab.unc.edu/pjones/russian/Soviet_Archive_Introduction.html Similar material to the Library of Congress page listed above,

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/ The Library of Congress page on the origins and results of the Marshall Plan.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm Texts of various documents from and articles on each year of the Cold War.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htm

http://www.snailshell.com/trapped/ The website of Hermann and Kate Field, authors of the book Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family; site includes their story, a discussion group, and relevant links.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/ The official web site for the CNN The Cold War series. Includes all kinds of links to images, text, archival sources, maps discussion groups, interviews, an interactive timeline, etc., and an online educators guide and a list of curricular connections to NCHH and NCHE themes. Various episodes include student activities.

http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm The official site of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/index.htm The web site of the four-part PBS documentary series The Red Files. Includes links to interviews with key Cold War security figures included in the documentary.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv The National Security Archive web page, declassified documents, including several documents from the Cold War.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/sjir The Stanford Journal of International Relations — check the Winter, 2000 issue, "Ten Years After the Cold War" for various articles about the Cold War by Stanford scholars.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/cuba_mis_cri.html A National Security Archive page about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Excellent text describing events day to day from October 18-29 and including audio files of Kennedy, McNamara etc..

http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~bayer/cmc/MAIN.HTML The Cuban Missile Crisis — description of the crisis, with maps and specific information on types of missiles involved.

http://www.utoronto.ca/serap/ The Stalin Era Research and Archives Project. Reviews, links, newsletter about this research project at University of Toronto.

http://www.wall-berlin.org/gb/berlin.htm "A Concrete Curtain: the Life and Death of the Berlin Wall." An electronic exhibition about the Berlin Wall.

http://members.tripod.com/~Michael_Coleman The Berlin Airlift 1948-49 -- a pictorial exhibition.

http://www.osa.ceu.hu/gulag/ Open Society Institute’s web exhibit about forced labor camps in the USSR.

http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/bibl.html A Cold War bibliography from Carnegie Mellon University.

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/links.htm Link to Cold War websites from the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/graff.html " ‘Conflict Seems Vaguely Un-American’: Teaching the Conflicts and the Legacy of Cold War;" a 1995 book review essay by Alan Filreis from U of Pennsylvania.

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html A glossary of terms and links about Cold War culture within the US in the1950s, from a literature course taught at University of Pennsylvania by Alan Filreis.

http://www.coldwar.org/ Link to an organization encouraging creation of a Cold War Museum; text links to summaries about particular events in the Cold War.

http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/BUK/GBARC/buk.html Soviet Archives Project at Info-Russ -- selected Soviet archival documents published electronically.

http://cpsu.webjump.com/ A humorous site about the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (created after the USSR demise), with logos, music, and other information about the CPSU.

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec5/Unit_11/Unit_11L1.html

http://ericir.syr.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?search+simplesearch+lessons+lessons:+10+10+0+cold+war

http://www.usca.scarolina.edu/AEDC442/442984001/HappinessandHostilities.html Links to lesson plans and Cold War websites

http://www.school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/eisenhower-coldwar/index.html

http://www.rockhall.com/educate/lssnplan/

http://www.whistlestop.org/applications/dilemma/dilemma.html

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/29ike/29ike.htm

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/technology/life.without/index.html

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/23/game/

http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/linkslib/ The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) links page, with links by topic, region and country. And excellent source for links on various social studies topics, including Russia, Eastern Europe and the former USSR.

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/rees.html From U. of Pittsburgh, a list of links to Russia and East European related sites.

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/history.html Bucknell University’s Russian History website — excellent timelines, links regarding Russian history in general (also http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/chrono.html/)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DouglasHartman/homepage.htm

http://www.dove.net.au/~rabogna/russian/contents.htm/ "Russophilia" is a huge page of links, literally thousands, on all topics. The history/social science section at http://www.dove.net.au/~rabogna/russian/rus13.htm#Section 13B/

http://www.rferl.org/ The web site of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe; contemporary news updates, articles, special reports on Russia and Eastern Europe.

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~russia/ H-Russia, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. H-RUSSIA encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.

http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/

http://www.qbradley.freeserve.co.uk/struggle2.html

http://www.internationalposter.com/ru-text.cfm

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html

http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/mes/russia/photo.html Images of Russia and various regions within — good images, plus maps, flags and other information.

http://metalab.unc.edu/sergei/Exs/His/His.html "Pictures of Russian History" -- electronic posting of historical paintings representing events in Russian history.

http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~kaleck/Lenin/ V.I. Lenin Homepage

http://www.ucr.edu/history/seaman/stalin.html and http://gate.cruzio.com/~marx2mao/Stalin/Index.html --

http://www.online.ru/english/gallery/ Links to virtual tours and various images of cities, monuments, arts etc..