On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain rose to give a speech at Westminster College in ...

Now as the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, CNN will re-air its epic 24-part landmark series to give viewers a chance to see how the events of yesterday have shaped the ...

Alfred W. McCoy has written an extremely powerful book, Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage ...

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**Click the link above for the full plan with readings and handouts.** This unit has been developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in partnership with CFR Education from the ...

Pretend you only had one shelf for your library, and your library could consist of only 10 books about American history. For this hypothetical situation, I have assembled a list of the best ...

When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this time “a turning point in history.” Western leaders agree that ...

The Cold War wasn't actually much of a war at all, as it saw very little actual combat between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two of the world's biggest superpowers, the two were in a nuclear ...