History of the Cold War.

Abstract

A review of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991, largely from the US perspective arranged topically from the early historiography to the end of the Cold War. We read mostly secondary sources, the interpretative histories of various aspects of the Cold war, but we also look at primary sources, the first hand documents from which Historians weave their interpretations. Each week we investigate various themes in Cold War history from the Nuclear Age, to Civil Rights