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PATHFINDER: UNITED STATES
HISTORY: THE COLD WAR
Scope|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals,
Journals & Trade Publications|Media|Web
Sites
Scope: In the 1940’s under
the administration of President Harry Truman, the United
States became involved in the “Cold War.” Conflicting
philosophies and shifting attitudes about the possible
threat of communism arose. President Truman’s fateful
decision to exercise atomic power by dropping the first
atomic bomb on the Japanese areas of Nagasaki and
Hiroshima, met with devastating results. Ideological
conflicts between the East and West; the United States
and Russia began. As a result, the United States became
involved in the Cold War with Russia over the use of
atomic weapons. (Kaledin, Eugenia, Daily Life in the
United States, 1940-1959)
The purpose of this pathfinder, is to serve as a guide
for student research. It is not intended as a
comprehensive listing of all the materials available in
the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling
of the many types of resources available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with the Cold War are listed in the
Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following
subject headings:
Soviet Union—Foreign Relations—United States
United States—Foreign Relations—Soviet Union
Cold War
World Politics—20th Century
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF E169.K 139 2000 Daily Life in the United States,
1940-1959: Shifting Worlds
REF E 169.12 Y69 2004 The 1950’s
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Friedman, Norman.
The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold
War.
Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2000.
Gaddis, John Lewis.
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War,
1941-1947. (electronic resource) New York: Columbia
University Press, 2000.
George, Alice L.
Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban
Missile
Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2003.
Kuznick, Peter J. and James Gilbert.
Rethinking Cold War Culture. Washington,
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.
Puddington, Arch.
Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free
Europe And Radio Liberty. Lexington, Ky: University
Press of Kentucky, 2003.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
History--General
MEDIA
Videos
D843.C6 1998
Cold War vols. 1-8
E748.m143 m33x
McCarthy: A Death of a Witch Hunter
D 422.P46 1998
People’s Century, 1945 Brave New World
WEB SITES
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm
Cold War Policies
1945-1991
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html
Cold War Connection
Site maintained by Professor David Hounshell from
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cmu.edu/coldwar/
The Harvard Project on
Cold War Studies
Links to sites on the Internet
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/links.htm
Updated
06/13/2007
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