Marine veteran Ronald L. Hart’s estate is supporting efforts to tell the story of the Corps during the Cold War at the ...

Is the cold a curse or a tool? From Napoleon’s frozen retreat to Finland’s "White Death," see how history's greatest commanders used General Winter to crush their enemies.

On Nov. 12, 2024, the National Cold War Center at Blytheville announced a partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center in an effort to preserve the story of the Cold War. The Washington-based center, ...

Henry A. Kissinger, the scholar-turned-diplomat who engineered the United States’ opening to China, negotiated its exit from Vietnam, and used cunning, ambition and intellect to remake American power ...

For decades, mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts transmitted eerie sequences of numbers, tones, and robotic voices to anyone with a receiver. Known as numbers stations, these signals often began ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

The Day After imagined a nuclear attack on the U.S. and the dystopian aftermath of a crumbling society. The Day After imagined a nuclear attack on the U.S. and the dystopian aftermath of a crumbling ...

Longtime Bowdoin history professor Allen Wells recasts the recent history of Latin America as a battle of democracy vs. dictatorship, rather than left vs. right. “When we think of Latin America, the ...

The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as an ...

When U.S. policymakers and commentators need guidance, they habitually turn to the Cold War. They mine its events for lessons, consult its characters for advice, and compare its features to the ...

The Cold War was a dark time. It began shortly after World War II and officially ended with the fall of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991. Soon after the Cold War began, for the first time in ...