At the outset of the Yalta Conference on February 4, 1945, the «Big Three» were all optimistic: victory was in no doubt, and the accord that they had achieved seemed likely to preserve the values they ...

1. Introduction / David Crowley and Jane Pavitt : From monuments to fast cars: aspects of cold war art, 1946-1957 / Sarah Wilson ; Modernism between peace and freedom: Picasso and others at the ...

Only the oldest Americans have memories of the 1930s, when German and Japanese power threatened war in both Europe and the Pacific. In those years Americans well recalled the earlier “Great War” and ...

Introduction: If not now, when? Lynd's half-century journey for social change in the United States -- Premature New Leftist, 1945-1960 -- Historical protagonist ...

Expert of Eastern European and Russian affairs and Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute Dr. Michael Kimmage joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about the "Cold War" contested by ...