Cold War International History Project

08/12/2021

Tomorrow, August 13, 2021, marks 60 years since the construction of the Berlin Wall. In recognition of this anniversary, the History and Public Policy Program has created a bibliography of all Wilson Center publications, video interviews, and archival documents that relate to the history of the Wall.

A bibliography of all Wilson Center publications, video interviews, and archival documents that relate to the history of the Berlin Wall.

08/09/2021

📌EVENT: Join us today at our virtual webcast event!
Commemorating Wilson in an Age of Racial Reckoning, TODAY, 8/9, 1:00-2:30 EST

"To commemorate" means "to remember together." How should we collectively remember a past that has left so many different legacies for different people? How should we remember a figure like Woodrow Wilson, whose legacy is both internally inconsistent and publicly contested? Can we find a way to expl...

07/26/2021

📌EVENT: Join us today at our virtual webcast event!

Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War 🕒 Today, 7/26. 4:00-5:30, EST

What was it like to be at the center of political tensions in Moscow and tasked with explaining the Soviet Union to the American public? Chosen by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the ‘Murrow Boys,’ veteran journalist Marvin Kalb shares his journey...

07/19/2021

EVENTS: Join us this week at our virtual events! RSVP at the links below.

📌 TODAY EST: Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II with Donald Filtzer, Wendy Goldman, and Nicole Eaton.

🔗https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/fortress-dark-and-stern-soviet-home-front-during-world-war-ii

📌FRIDAY EST: The Selling of a Centennial, 2021 : What the Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda Reveals About the CCP with Anne-Marie Brady, Aynne Kokas, and Maria Repnikova.

🔗https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/selling-centennial-2021-what-chinese-communist-partys-propaganda-reveals-about-ccp

07/19/2021

ICYMI: Two new articles on Sources & Methods

📌Clara Kaul provides a brief history of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/nuclear-testing-and-status-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty

📌Harry Blutstein writes on the forgotten protests of Czechoslovak gymnast Věra Čáslavská at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/forgotten-protest

📌Read any of our previous blog posts on our Blog here: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blogs/sources-and-methods

Sources and Methods presents fresh archival evidence and new insights into contemporary international history.

07/12/2021

📌EVENT: Join us today at our virtual webcast event!

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
🕒 Today, 7/12, 4:00-5:30, EST

Pulitzer-winning historian Bird (The Good Spy) discerns much positive achievement in Carter’s one-term presidency, including airline deregulation that made flying cheap; prescient energy policies that boosted domestic energy supplies and solar power; human rights initiatives…and the Israeli-Egyp...

07/06/2021

NEW on Sources & Methods:

Starting in 1979 and lasting through most of the Iran-Iraq War, West German and Iraqi intelligence officials developed a backchannel that resulted in a substantial exchange between the countries. Ali Dogan reveals how and why this relationship came about and what consequences it might have had on the war with Iran.

Starting in 1979 and lasting through most of the Iran-Iraq War, West German and Iraqi intelligence officials developed a backchannel that resulted in a substantial exchange between the countries. Ali Dogan reveals how and why this relationship came about and what consequences it might have had on th...

07/06/2021

📌EVENT: Join us this week at our virtual webcast event!

JUSTICE DEFERRED: RACE AND THE SUPREME COURT
🕓 THURS, 4-5:30pm ET

Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court by civil rights attorney Armand Derfner and historian Vernon Burton tells the story of race by laying bare the complicity of the Court, narrating how we got to where we are. “Race” is America’s most salient topic today, and the Supreme Court a close...

06/30/2021

NEW on Sources & Methods💡

Details of Operation HORIZON, a significant espionage operation carried out by the KGB against the West in 1967 and 1968, are revealed in a series of documents translated and analyzed by Filip Kovacevic.

Details of Operation HORIZON, a significant espionage operation carried out by the KGB against the West in 1967 and 1968, are revealed in a series of documents translated and analyzed by Filip Kovacevic.

06/28/2021

*New Blog Post Alert!*

On our blog Sources & Methods, Benjamin V. Allison takes an inside look into the Carter administration's policy toward the Second Yemenite War in 1979 and the establishment of the Carter Doctrine.

Benjamin V. Allison takes an inside look into the Carter administration's policy toward the Second Yemenite War in 1979 and the establishment of the Carter Doctrine.

06/28/2021

📌 EVENTS: Join HAPP this week at our virtual events! Information on the events and how to join are in the links below.

TODAY, June 28 @ 4:00 - 5:30pm ET

Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/justice-rising-robert-kennedys-america-black-and-white

TOMORROW, June 29 @ 10:00-11:30am ET

Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/pax-transatlantica-america-and-europe-post-cold-war-era

See you there!