Protesting the 1980 Moscow “Olympics of Oppression”
This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in…
Browsing: Cold War
On “The U.S. Culture Wars Abroad: Liberal-Evangelical Rivalry and Decolonization in Southern Africa, 1968–1994”
The problem of the archive is a well-worn topic for historians. But sometimes the sheer…
Life Goes to Vietnam
Perhaps more than any other publication, the Life magazine that went to war in the…
Selling American Vigor The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness
Starting this May, the FDA is expected to implement a long-delayed component of the Affordable…
The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR
The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same…
Mapping the Cold War
Can you briefly describe your book project? Mapping the Cold War traces the development of…