Books

Charles A. Willoughby and the Anti-Communist Crusade: Forging the Geopolitics of the American Old Right

Beware the Red Peril! was the clarion call of General Charles A. Willoughby at the close of World War II. The refrain echoed from Capitol Hill into American living rooms. For three decades after the war, the Old Right crusaded against global communist expansion, sniffing out internal and external threats to the American way of life. These...

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The Big Picture: The Cold War on the Small Screen (War on Screen)

Capitalizing on thousands of feet of accumulated footage captured by combat camera crews during the early years of the Korean War, a small group of US Army officers conceptualized a film series that would widen viewers’ understanding of the service and its mission. Their efforts produced the documentary television series that in late 1951 would...

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American Military Communities in West Germany

On April 28, 1946, a small group of American wives and children arrived at the port of Bremerhaven, West Germany, the first of thousands of military family members to make the trans-Atlantic journey. They were the basis of a network of military communities--“Little Americas”--that would spread across the postwar German landscape. During a...

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