Understanding and teaching the Cold War / edited by Matthew Masur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Masur, Matthew, editor.

Series:

Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history

The Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991.

Soviet Union.

Cold War--Study and teaching.

World politics--1945-1989--Study and teaching.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989--Study and teaching.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xi, 364 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]

Summary:

"For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political alliances, doled out foreign aid, mounted cultural campaigns, and launched covert operations. The Cold War also deeply affected the domestic politics, cultures, and economic policies of the two superpowers, their client states, and other nations throughout the world. Teaching the Cold War is both necessary and challenging. Understanding and Teaching the Cold War is designed to help collegiate and high school teachers navigate the complexity of the topic, integrate up-to-date research and concepts into their classes, and use strategies and tools that make this important history meaningful to students. The volume opens with Matthew Masur's overview of models for approaching the subject, whether in survey courses or seminars. Two prominent historians, Carole Fink and Warren Cohen, offer accounts of their experience as long-time scholars and teachers of the Cold War from European and Asian perspectives. Sixteen essays dig into themes including the origins and end of the conflict, nuclear weapons, diplomacy, propaganda, fear, popular culture, and civil rights, as well as the Cold War in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, East Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the nonaligned nations. A final section provides practical advice for using relevant, accessible primary sources to implement the teaching ideas suggested in this book"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Matthew Masur

Part One. The Cold War and the classroom. Teaching the history of Cold War Europe / Carole Fink

Reflections on the Cold War in Asia: then and now / Warren I. Cohen

Part Two. Traditional topics, new perspectives. Origins of the Cold War / Jessica Elkind

Two scorpions in a bottle: nuclear weapons and the Cold War / Shane J. Maddock

The Soviets' Cold War: notes of a diplomatic historian / Anthony D'Agostino

The end of the Cold War in the classroom / Mario Del Pero

Teaching the Cold War to the post-9/11 generation / David Bosso

Part Three. The Cold War and American Society. Teaching propaganda and ideology in Cold War history / Kenneth Osgood

Teaching "fear" and "anxiety" in the Cold War / Molly M. Wood

Using popular culture to teach the Cold War / Laura A. Belmonte

Civil rights and the Cold War era / Brenda Gayle Plummer

National security and the national pastime / Thomas W. Zeiler

Part Four. The global Cold War. Viewing Poland's Cold War through literature and film / Philip Pajakowski

The Cold War in western Europe / J. Simon Rofe

Did the Cold War really end? Teaching the Cold War from East Asian perspectives / Hiroshi Kitamura

The Cold War in Latin America and the Caribbean / Andrew J. Kirkendall

The Cold War in Africa / Ryan M. Irwin

A pox on both your houses: neutralism and the Cold War / Mary Ann Heiss

Part Five. Archival collections for teaching the Cold War. The global Cold War: using the resources of the Cold War International History Project / Christian Ostermann

Teaching with the tapes: presidential recordings and the Cold War / Marc J. Selverstone

Teaching the Cold War with the Foreign Relations of the United States series / M. Todd Bennett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780299309909

0299309908

OCLC:

947104711