American History Since 1877

Chapter 26
Cold War America, 1945-1960

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These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY202 classes (American History from 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information.

Books and eBooks in the TC3 Collection

• America and the Origins of the Cold War [E744 .C65]
  
• America in the Cold War: Twenty Years of Revolutions and Response, 1947-1967 [E744 .L24]
• American Diplomacy, 1900-1950 by George Frost Kennan [E744 .K3]
• America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1966 [E183.8.R9 L26]
• Enemy Among Us: a Story of Witch-hunting in the McCarthy Era [HX44 .R6]
• Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953 [DS918 .B53 1987]
• From the secret files of J. Edgar Hoover [E743.5 .F68 1991]
• Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis [E841 .K4655 1997]
• Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War [E183.8.S65 .G3 1989]
• Memoirs, 1925-1950 by George Frost Kennan [E748.K374 A3] - Primary source
• Memoirs by Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) [E814 .T76 v.1] [E814 .T76 v.2] - Primary source
• Nightmare in Red: the McCarthy Era in Perspective [E743.5 .F67 1990]
• No Bugles, no Drums: an Oral History of the Korean War [DS921.6 .T66 1993] - Personal narratives of Americans. Primary source
• Origins of the Cold War (2nd ed) [D843 .P37]
• Parting the Waters: America in the King years, 1954-63 [E185.61 .B7914 v.1]
• Plain Speaking: an Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman [E814 .M54]
• Stride toward Freedom; the Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King ([E185.89.T8 K5] - Primary source
• Unfinished Journey: America since World War II [E743 .C43 1986]
• Voices from the Korean War: Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers [DS921.6 .P37 2004] - Primary source
• We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History [D843 .G24 1998]

Don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help in locating books and media in the TC3 Library Catalog. Material not owned by our library can be located and borrowed through the SUNY Union Catalog, a single search interface for 62 SUNY library catalogs and WorldCat, a wordwide database of library books and materials.

Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise, 1877-1900 in the TC3 Library Catalog, the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• Anti-Communist Movements
• Cold War
• Communism, United States
• Subversive activities, United States
• United States History 1945-1953
• United States, Politics and government, 1945-1953
• World politics, 1945-

Multimedia

Senator Joe McCarthy: Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954 "35 streaming audio files containing public remarks made by the Republican senator from Wisconsin during his controversial campaign to remove communists and communist sympathizers from government."
• Hollywood on Trial [videorecording] [Media PN1993.5.U65 H65 1989] - "A courageous and true recording of the story of 'The Hollywood Ten', who, in 1947, would not cooperate when accused by the United States government of possible communist loyalties."

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals, also listed by subject (History & Archaeology).

Web Resources

• Alger Hiss Story
• Cold War International History Project - "Disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War ...." The Virtual Archive is a collection of primary documents.
• The Agency and the Hill: CIA's Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004 - by L. Britt Snider. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2008.
• Cold War Museum
• Cold War Oral History Project - Fifteen interviews with text from the Virginia Military Institute Archives
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Electronic Reading Room - Their FOIA files include Joseph McCarthy (4,296 pages), and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (171 pages).
• Foreign Relations of the United States - U.S. Department of State documents from the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations.
• Google Books Ngram Viewer - Graphs the chronical usage of phrases (iron curtain, cold war) and provides links to the materials that contain them.
• Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
• Hollywood Ten - Group of 10 Hollywood producers, directors, and screenwriters who, questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, refused to testify to possible communist affiliations. After spending time in prison for contempt of Congress, they were blacklisted by Hollywood studios." This website is part of Michigan State University's American Radicalism online resources.
• Rosenberg Archives - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Rosenberg Case - Accused of passing on atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death in 1951. Based on the judge's verdict that their crime was 'worse than murder,' the severity of their punishment caused a wave of protest and came to symbolize the anti-communist hysteria of the time." This web site is part of Michigan State University's American Radicalism online resources.
• Truman and Eisenhower - Korean War 1950-1953 - Joint project of the Henry S. Truman Library and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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