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Atomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midcentury Midwest

How the St. Louis Baby Tooth Study reconciled the ritual of childhood tooth loss with the geopolitics of nuclear annihilation.
by Caroline Jack, Stephanie Steinhardt via The Appendix on November 26, 2014
Typewriter with keys that have the letters "IA" on each of them.

How Iowa Flattened Literature

With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.
by Eric Bennett via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 10, 2014
Black-and-white still image from the film "Dr. Strangelove," in which a man is shouting and waving his hat in the air while riding a missile in flight.

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.
by Eric Schlosser via The New Yorker on January 17, 2014

Jimmy Carter Toasts the Shah

The Shah’s reign witnessed years of oppression against the Iranian people, and Carter’s toast added fuel to the fire.
via Voices & Visions on December 31, 1977
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The Soviets and US

The contours and legacies of the most consequential political rivalry of the 20th century.
Johnson delivers the State of the Union address in 1965.

Lyndon B. Johnson's 1968 State of the Union Address

An unpopular Lyndon B. Johnson sought unity amid turmoil in his 1968 address to Congress.
by Lyndon Baines Johnson via The American Presidency Project on January 17, 1968
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy speaking

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.
by Richard Hofstadter via Harper’s on November 1, 1964
Title card for animated film "Destination Earth".

Destination Earth (1956)

A Cold War-era cartoon celebrates the wonders of oil and free-market capitalism, and the overthrow of the Stalin-like leader of Mars.
by John Sutherland via The Public Domain Review on June 1, 1956

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