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The American flag and the South Korean flag.

Eighty Years of Martial Law

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial law is of little import compared to the American occupation of the country.

by Jason Morgan via The American Conservative on December 24, 2024

Jesus Jones on stage.

Right Here, Right Now: Jesus Jones and the Post-Cold War Moment

For a brief window at the end of the Cold War, British alt-rock band Jesus Jones tapped into global feelings of optimism and hope.

by Dion Georgiou via The Saturday Evening Post on December 24, 2024

CIA memo about LSD use.

CIA Behavior Control Experiments Focus of New Scholarly Collection

Agency sought drugs and behavior control techniques to use in “special interrogations” and offensive operations.

by Michael Evans via National Security Archive on December 23, 2024

William F. Buckley, Donald Trump.

The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism

Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.

by Thomas Zimmer via Democracy Americana on December 16, 2024

Ronald Reagan and Paul Nitze.

A Cold Warrior for Our Time

James Graham Wilson makes a compelling case that the under-celebrated example of Paul Nitze is both instructive and worthy of our emulation.

by Max J. Prowant via Law & Liberty on December 9, 2024

Reagan and supporters at a campaign rally in 1984.

Reagan Resurgent?

Commentary on America’s 40th president often misses how the Gipper blended principles and pragmatism for a truly conservative statesmanship.

by Anthony Eames via Law & Liberty on December 4, 2024

Photo contact sheet from Ronald Reagan speech on Nicaragua in 1986.

Letting the World Scream

The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.

by Sean T. Byrnes via HNN on November 26, 2024

Barack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinxing looking away from each other.

The Bipartisan Origins of the New Cold War

Starting with Obama, American presidents embraced the idea of arresting China’s rise, opening the door to Trump’s trade wars and hawkishness.

by Michael Brenes, Van Jackson via Jacobin on November 25, 2024

John Locke

Review of "America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life"

We see what we want to see from philosophers such as Locke not because he wrote for our time (or “all time”) but because we imagine he did.

by Raymond Haberski Jr. via American Literary History on November 15, 2024

Protestors after Nixon's Election protesting the end to war.

US Labor and the Gaza War: Historical Perspective

Are we doomed to repetition? It’s something I worry about.

by Tim Barker via Origins of Our Time on November 15, 2024

Photo of 5 skeletons controlling panels.

Notes from the Cold War Underground

The weapons infrastructure of the Cold War is now getting rented out on Airbnb or memorialized as patriotic kitsch.

by Emily Harnett via The Baffler on October 22, 2024

Paper and an ink pen.

Call Me Comrade: Cold War Pen-Pals

The correspondence of Soviet and American women during the Cold War.

by Miriam Dobson via London Review of Books on October 17, 2024

Jimmy Carter and Shah Pahlavi.

The US’s Long History of Destabilizing Iran

Kamala Harris called Iran a “destabilizing, dangerous force.” The appropriate context for this is the US’s own decades-long history of destabilizing Iran.

by Seraj Assi via Jacobin on October 9, 2024

Map of the US Air Force Atlantic Missile Range stations in 1957

Making the American Orbit

The U.S. military operated a Grand Turk missile tracking station for 30 years, with limited local benefits, highlighting American expansionism's impact.

by Andrew J. Ross via Perspectives on History on October 8, 2024

A stylized painting of the United States military commiting a massacre in Korea.

The Jazz Beats of a Coup

How the US State Department used jazz music for its national security aims.

by Esha Krishnaswamy via Historic.ly on October 3, 2024

Phil Donahue.

Phil Donahue’s Cold War Legacy

The late telejournalist was a pioneer of informal diplomacy between American and Soviet citizens.

by Adriel Kasonta via The American Conservative on September 25, 2024

Civil Defense warning.

The Occasion Instant, 1961

What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?

by Alex Wellerstein via Doomsday Machines on September 11, 2024

Ronald Reagan

What If Ronald Reagan’s Presidency Never Really Ended?

Anti-Trump Republicans revere Ronald Reagan as Trump’s opposite—yet in critical ways Reagan may have been his forerunner.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on September 9, 2024

Communist Party USA members march for unemployed relief during the Great Depression in San Francisco.

Bring American Communists Out of the Shadows — and Closets

In the 20th century, American Communists were seen as an enemy within. In reality, they were ordinary people with complex lives that deserve to be chronicled.

by David Bacon via Jacobin on August 15, 2024

Summer Interns, posting with the casing of a B-61 bomb in 1982.

Pantex Employee Photos, 1980s

Team photographs at a nuclear weapons factory offer a glimpse into the mundanity and materiality of the bomb.

by Alex Wellerstein via Doomsday Machines on August 13, 2024

Still from the film 'Red Dawn" showing three men holding rifles and binoculars.

Why 1984's 'Red Dawn' Still Matters

By framing the U.S. as a victim, 'Red Dawn' obscured U.S. aggression in Latin America and elsewhere.

by Michelle D. Paranzino via Made By History on August 9, 2024

President Eisenhower sitting beside President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, September 26, 1960

The Foreign Policy Mistake the U.S. Keeps Repeating in the Middle East

In 2024, the U.S. faces some of the same challenges in the region that it did in 1954.

by Jordan Michael Smith via The New Republic on August 2, 2024

NATO leaders in the 1950s sitting together at a conference.

Ill-Suited to Reality: NATO’s Delusions

It has suddenly become popular to cast NATO as the first benign military alliance in history, without concealed politics.

by Tom Stevenson via London Review of Books on July 25, 2024

A collection of supplies inside of a fallout shelter.

Nine Hot Weeks, with Misgivings

Cataloguing basement fallout shelters in the summer of 1967.

by Monte Davis via 3 Quarks Daily on July 16, 2024

Cover of "Gun Country" by Andrew McKevitt.

America, the Dumping Ground

A new book frames America's gun culture as the consequence of the U.S.'s post-World War II decisions to favor consumerism over safety.

by Noah Shusterman via The New Rambler on June 27, 2024

A column of Soviet armored vehicles arrives to reinforce the military presence in Kabul on Jan. 30, 1980.

The Forgotten World War III Scare of 1980

Moscow and Washington trapped themselves in a cycle of fear over Iran.

by James M. Acton, Nicole Grajewski via Foreign Policy on June 9, 2024

St. Basil's Cathedral spire about to pierce the world like a balloon.

Why Would Anyone Want to Run the World?

The warnings in Cold War history.

by John Lewis Gaddis via Foreign Affairs on June 7, 2024

Blue sky like background, with colorful circle like planets.

How Two Rebel Physicists Changed Quantum Theory

David Bohm and Hugh Everett were once ostracized for challenging the dominant thinking in physics. Now, science accepts their ideas.

by Sidney Perkowitz via JSTOR Daily on June 5, 2024

Man and woman testing buttons on machine at Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory

Tomorrow People

For the entire 20th century, it had felt like telepathy was just around the corner. Why is that especially true now?

by Roger Luckhurst via Aeon on June 3, 2024

A painting of Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

The Prophet Who Failed

After the apocalypse that wasn’t.

by Emily Harnett via Harper’s on May 24, 2024

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