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The Havighurst Center will considered these cultural reflections of the Cold War era as well as the remnants of the Cold War culture and thinking today as part of its focus on the Cold War in Fall 2007. The Annual Young Researchers Conference, the Colloquia Series and various invited guest lecturers throughout the year considered such topics as popular resistance and maintaining personal autonomy under repressive political regimes, responses to political rituals and propaganda, everyday life under the Cold War, the reinvention of history and building memories of the Cold War, the reflections of the Cold War thinking and practices in today's world.

History

HistoryWiz is a nonprofit organization whose aim is to promote an interest in history. The site is aimed primarily at the non-scholar adult, high school, and lower college level.

Website created in 2002 by the National Security Archive at George Washington University for the 40th Anniversary of the event.

This web site was developed by Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in cooperation with the producers of the 2000 movieThirteen Days.

The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world. 

An overview of the Cold War presented by the British Broadcasting Company.

In World War II, the 3AD saw the most combat, inflicted the most damage, and took the most casualties and during four decades of the Cold War, the Division was NATO's primary point-guard for the critical Fulda Gap in West Germany.

A website created by the University of San Diego History Department

From the World Wide Web Virtual Library:          
WWW-VL HISTORY CENTRAL CATALOGUE at the 
European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Cold War Society

This site, created by the Newseum, a museum of news set to open in Washington, DC in 2008, provides a history of the Berlin Wall, an interactive exhibit that explores the news and how it differed in East and West Berlin, and an exhibition about the falsification of photographs in Stalinist Russia.

Shows examples of bomb shelter as depicted by the Civil Defense Program.

This web-based document recreates a classic 1950 book detailing the dangers posed by an atomic bomb and the precautions that one may take to minimize the risk of contamination and death.

Civil Defense Films

The movie Duck and Cover was produced in 1950, during the first big Civil Defense push of the Cold War.

 
Atomic tests at the Nevada Proving Grounds show effects of a nuclear blast on well-kept homes, homes filled with trash and combustibles, and homes painted with reflective white paint. Asserts that cleanliness is an essential part of civil defense preparedness and that it increased survivability. Produced by the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association

An optimistic vision of nuclear fallout and civil defense countermeasures.

Cold War Links

The system of forced labor camps was established in the first years of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union. It became essential part of the Soviet repressive system.

The Open Society Archives is an archives and a center for research and education. Its collections and activities relate to the period after the Second World War, mainly The Cold War, The history of the formerly communist countries, Human rights, and War crimes.

The Cold War Museum was founded to preserve Cold War history and honor Cold War Veterans.

A virtual museum created by a collector of Cold War memorobilia and history.