Science historian Audra Wolfe’s new book, Freedom’s Laboratory, explores the science of the Cold War beyond its more tangible role in developing weapons. Instead, Wolfe focuses on science as ...

In 1951 dozens of young Europeans descended on the campus of Harvard University to take part in a 10-week, all-expenses-paid summer seminar on American history and culture. The program’s chief ...

And beyond a few mentions of Russia, renowned now as during the Cold War for its supposed propagandistic prowess, the enemies are no longer foreign governments but fellow American citizens. Like ...

His books include The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy, 1989–2001 (Palgrave, 2012) and Selling War: British Propaganda and American Neutrality ...

To recap: Hanania is right — this cold war with Russia is an extension of the culture war within American society, waged by elites against the American people.

Margaret Peacock is Professor of History at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War and coauthor of A Deeper ...

Charles Eames (American, 1907–1978), Ray Eames (American, 1912–1988). Prototype for Chaise Longue (La Chaise). 1948. [Photo: Jonathan Muzikar/courtesy MoMA] ...

The Cold War propaganda machine is having an unexpected attack of mauvaise foi and blurts out self-critiques and self-censure. ... It’s about U.S. imperialism in one of its Latin American bastions ...

A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern Europe and the ... America’s ‘high-brow’ Cold War propaganda operation.