This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Related Resources

Below are links related to topics covered in the course:

Student Voices from World War II and the McCarthy Era

C-SPAN.org: The Army/McCarthy Hearings

U.S. DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments

Atomic Archive

The History of Televised Presidential Debates

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War

Truman Presidential Museum & Library: Multimedia Digital Archives

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library: Resources for Class Assignments and National History Day Projects

John F. Kennedy Library and Museum: The World on the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis

NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security: A Report to the President, April 14, 1950

Sputnik: The Fortieth Anniversary

Stanford University: Stanford and Silicon Valley Archives Project

The Atlantic Online: As We May Think, by Vannevar Bush

Library of America: Reporting Civil Rights: 1941-1973

Kodak: Powerful Days in Black and White

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Documentation Project

Washington State University: Civil Rights Oral History Interviews

NARA Digital Classroom: Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education

Virginia Center for Digital History: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Massive Resistance

UC Berkeley Library Media Resources Center: Richard M. Nixon: The Watergate Tapes

University of California, Santa Barbara: The American Presidency Project