Cold War

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/23/2020
  

  New Film Tells Tale of North Korean Orphans Sent to Europe

  The documentary film “Kim Il Sung’s Children” will be released June 25, the 70th anniversary of the Korean War’s start.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/8/2020
  

  Using the Military to Quash Protests Can Erode Democracy – As Latin America Well Knows

  by Kristina Mani

  Even strong democracies have unraveled when the military was brought in to quell protest. Uruguay in the 1960s, Venezuela in the 1980s and Chile just last year provide insights.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/10/2020
  

  How the US Government Sold the Peace Corps to the American Public

  by Wendy Melillo

  Given the growing counterculture movement in the early 1960s, the government feared that few young Americans would be motivated to join the Peace Corps by a message that they’d be volunteering to help to fight communism. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/7/2020
  

  Yes, America Is in a Cold War With China

  "For too long the U.S. has looked the other way as the Chinese Communist Party has waged a new cold war against the American order," writes Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher.

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Turning Points and Roads Not Taken in American Foreign Policy

  by Roger Peace

  The end of the Cold War presented an opportunity for American foreign policy to turn away from militarism and toward cooperative development. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest consequence of failing to secure a "peace dividend."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/4/2020
  

  The Damage Trump Has Done This Week Extends Far Beyond America’s Borders

  by Mary L. Dudziak

  Concern that Orval Faubus's defiant stand for school segregation in Arkansas would sully America's reputation abroad pushed Dwight Eisenower to deploy the National Guard in the interest of both racial justice and American leadership. Calls to deploy the military today must consider this context.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/2/2020
  

  How History Will Judge the Complicit

  by Anne Appelbaum

  Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/29/2020
  

  The ‘Liberal World Order’ Was Built With Blood

  by Vincent Bevins

  American politicians, pundits and citizens need to understand that the history of American influence in the world has included violent subversion of democracy in the name of American interests.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/5/2020
  

  V-E Day Plus 75

  by Andrew Bacevich

  What the present pandemic drives home is that protecting Americans while also creating an environment in which all citizens can flourish is going to require a radical revision of American national security policies based in Baby Boomers' interpretation of the meaning of World War II.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/27/2020
  

  Inside the Mission to Perform Bone-Marrow Transplants on Survivors of the Chernobyl Disaster

  "Nevertheless, the next ten days demonstrated the value of international medical cooperation in moments of crisis, even when politics might make success seem impossible." writes Yair Reisner, an Israeli doctor whose help was requested by Russian officials after the disaster.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  4/29/2020
  

  As Putin Seeks to Reinvent History, Russia-Czech Relations Hit a New Low

  The dispute over a statue of a Soviet Army officer in Prague reflects Russian efforts to claim a heroic role in defeating fascism, eastern European nationalism, and contemporary power dynamics in the region. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/26/2020
  

  How Past Crises Changed America’s Public Schools — ‘And so too Will COVID-19’

  by Ann Marie Ryan and Charles Tocci

  While this certainly feels unprecedented, the history of American public schooling shows us it's not.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/10/2020
  

  Our Fear of Government Power Has Left Us Fighting COVID-19 with Volunteerism

  by Elisabeth S. Clemens

  Americans have always relied on the private sector in times of war and disaster.

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  4/9/2020
  

  Princeton Historian: America Can Beat Coronavirus if We Don't 'Defeat Ourselves'

  Stephen Kotkin, renowned for his work studying authoritarian regimes, said history teaches that the United States can triumph over the coronavirus pandemic if America doesn't "defeat ourselves."

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• SOURCE: Artnet News
  4/2/2020
  

  A 200-Foot Section of the Berlin Wall Has Been Torn Down to Make Way for Condos, Leaving Historians Appalled

  One of the largest remaining stretches of the inner wall was tucked quietly away in a suburb.

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• SOURCE: Prospect Magazine
  3/26/2020
  

  Interview With Historian Archie Brown: Rethinking the Cold War

  There's a widespread assumption that the Soviet Union had no alternative to ending the Cold War in the way they did. But that's wrong, says the Oxford historian.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/24/2020
  

  Dismantling the Federal Bureaucracy Has Left Us All Vulnerable to COVID-19

  by Teal Arcadi and Casey Eilbert

  Decades of deriding bureaucrats and cuts have undermined government capacity to serve us when we need it most.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  3/20/2020
  

  It Doesn’t Have to Be a War

  by Tim Barker

  The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks. What if we didn’t have to resort to the analog of war?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/2020
  

  President Trump Must Act Immediately to Protect Doctors and Nurses from COVID-19

  by Peter A. Shulman

  Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/23/2020
  

  Why Congress Passed the Defense Production Act in 1950

  The Cold War-era law went into effect during a time when President Truman felt the nation was unprepared.