HIST 305: The Cold War

See also the Cold War International History Project. Contains once-secret documents from governments across the globe.

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Includes eleven U.S. Communist newspapers published from 1919-2013, such as the Daily Worker and others.

Includes Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003), Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001) and Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

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From Yale Law School.

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This guide identifies selected Cold War U.S. official documents. These materials can be found either with HeinOnline, HathiTrust, by browsing the 4th Floor print Government Documents collection, or with Document Delivery. From East Carolina University.

A large-scale online archive with digitized books, journals, official documents and more. Especially useful for finding materials in the public domain.

Documents related to the development of the United Nations and the Cold War. From Fordham University.

The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.

Includes over 300 primary sources, among other resources. From the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media.

Maintained by the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Cold War materials digitized by Princeton University.

160 statements provided by witnesses of conditions in Soviet Gulags from 1939-1953. Includes audio files, photographs, and films.

A multimedia collection of papers, interviews, telex communiques, filmstrips, propaganda films, underground periodicals, and Radio Free Europe broadcasts from Hungary and Poland. Information provided in English and other languages.

A list of links from Mt. Holyoke College. However, broken links are included.

From Tufts University.

Consult the options at the left hand side of the screen for info. on creating a bibliography. From the OWL Purdue Writing Lab.

Zotero is a citation program with both a browser plug-in and free software. It is especially useful for keeping track of your citations. It is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.