The Cold War and the 1960s

Finding Resources in BearCAT

To find sources on the Cold War search with these Library of Congress Subject Headings:

 

 

 

 

 

Background Sources: Encyclopedias, Bibliographies, and Surveys

Arms, Thomas S., ed. Encyclopedia of the Cold War. New York : Facts on File, 1994. Reference Collection 909.82 Ar5

Dudley, William, ed. The Cold War: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1992. 327.73 D86

Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Press, 2005. 909.825 G11

Kort, Michael. The Columbia Guide to the Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Reference Collection 973.9 K84 

LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1992, 7 th ed . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. 327.73 L13

Leffler, Melvyn P. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. 327.7304 L52

McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 909.825 M22 

Sibley, Katherine A.S. The Cold War . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998.  Reference Collection 909.82 Si2

Wildin, Rowena, ed. The Sixties in America. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1999. Reference Collection 973.92 Si9 v.1-3

American Social Conditions

Barson, Michael, and Steven Heller. Red Scared!: The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001. 973.9 B28

Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. Cambridge , Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001. 305.8 B64

Henriksen, Margot A. Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. Berkeley , California: University of California Press, 1997. 973.9 H39

Kramer, Hilton. The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1999. 327.73 K86 

Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War, 2 nd ed . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 973.9 W58

Foreign Policy: Kennedy and Johnson Administrations

Beschloss, Michael R. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963. New York: Edward Burlingame Books, 1991. 327.7304 B46 

Chang, Gordon H. Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 . Stanford , California: Stanford University Press, 1990. 327.7305 C36

Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. 973.922 F87

Gardner, Lloyd C. Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1995. 959.7043 G17 

Gelb, Norman. The Berlin Wall: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and a Showdown in the Heart of Europe. New York : Times Books, 1987. 943.15 G28 

Hunt, Michael H. Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. 959.7043 H91 

Kaiser, David. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge , Massachusetts : Belknap Press, 2000. 959.7043 K12

Paterson , Thomas G., ed. Kennedy's Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963 . New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 973.922 K382 

Vandiver, Frank E. Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. 959.704 V28 

Walton, Richard J. Cold War and Counterrevolution: The Foreign Policy of John F. Kennedy . New York, Viking Press, 1972. 327.73 W17 

Cuban Missile Crisis

Blight, James G., Bruce J. Allyn, and David A. Welch. Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. 972.9106 B61

Detzer, David. The Brink: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. New York: Crowell, 1979. 972.9106 D48

Divine, Robert A., ed. The Cuban Missile Crisis , 2 nd ed. New York: M. Wiener Pub., 1988. 972.9106 C89 

Fursenko, Aleksandr, and Timothy Naftali. "One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 . New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. 972.9106 F98 

Higgins, Trumbull. The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the C.I.A. at the Bay of Pigs. New York: Norton, 1987. 972.9106 H53 

Stern, Sheldon M. Averting “The Final Failure”: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings. Stanford , California: Stanford University Press, 2003. 972.9106 St4 

White, Mark J., ed. The Kennedys and Cuba: The Declassified Documentary History. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 1999. 327.73 K38

Databases

Journal Databases

America: History and Life —This resource contains over 500,000 bibliographic entries from 2,000 journals. The historical coverage of Historical Abstracts is world history from 1490 to the present (excluding United States and Canadian History, which is found in America: History and Life). There are some full-text links to articles through the Ebsco, History Cooperative, JSTOR, and Project Muse.

EBSCOhost Advanced Placement Source: This database is a collection of full-text articles from more than 6,100 journals. The articles are a mix of scholarly journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Advanced Placement Source contains more than 400 journals that focus on the humanities. EBSCOhost has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

JSTOR: JSTOR is short for Journal Storage. JSTOR is a collection of more than 900 full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR contains complete backfiles for each journal with a moving window that averages around 5 years. This means JSTOR, for a particular journal, will have the journal's first issue up until about five years before now. Subject areas vary in JSTOR, but its main focus is on the humanities, with 17 journals that focus on Classical Studies.

Project Muse: Project Muse is published by John Hopkins University. Muse is a collection of more than 300 full-text scholarly journals. The coverage in Muse is current. Most of the journals’ coverage is five to ten years. As with JSTOR, Project Muse focuses on the humanities, with 5 journals that focus on Classical Studies. Muse has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Primary Source Databases

 In the First Person — This database is an index of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. In the First Person contains the voices of more than 300,000 individuals from 2,500 collections. An added feature is 2,500 audio and video files. The index is searchable by keyword and subject.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers— ProQuest offers the historical backfiles to four of the most prominent newspapers in the United States: The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. All of the articles are available full-text. The newspapers are easily searched by author, title, and date.


Websites

Cold War Defense Museum—The Museum’s mission is to outline the duties of the Civil Defense during the Cold War. The goal of the Civil Defense was to protect the American public from a nuclear attack. The site contains a gallery of Civil Defense publications, Civil Defense supplies, and numerous fallout shelter virtual tours. There are consent updates to the site.
URL: http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/

Cold War International History Project—The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The goal of the project is to provide government documents from all sides on the Cold War. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the project has increased their collection of documents from former Communist countries. Collections pertaining to the 1960s are: the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba in the Cold War, Khrushchev, and Nuclear Non-Proliferation.
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.intro

National Archives and Records Administration— NARA contains over 10 million images and a collection of documents that is so large that it could be wrapped around the earth 57 times. Some of this information is found electronically. NARA exclusively focuses on U.S. History.
URL: http://www.archives.gov

The National Security Archives — George Washington University. The National Security collection is a non-government sponsored archive, with the mission of collecting declassified government documents dealing with national security. A large collection of documents are found online and pertaining to the Cold War. There is an exhibit for the 40 th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis including, declassified secret documents, audio clips, and photographs.
Homepage: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
Cuban Missile Crisis: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

The images “Kennedy and Khrushchev at Vienna Meeting, 06/03/1961-06/04/1961,” “Photograph of U-2 Wreckage,” and "Aerial Photograph of Intercontinental Range Ballistic Missile Launch Site Number One at Guanajay, Cuba, 10/23/1962" are from the National Archives and Records Administration (http://www.archives.gov/). The image “President Lyndon B. Johnson and Sec. Robert McNamara at the Bipartisan Congressional Leadership meeting on Vietnam, 07/27/1965)” is from The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum (http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/). The images are in the public domain and there are no known restrictions on the publications.