Crisis
Henry Kissinger was interviewed about his book, Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises, published by Simon and Schuster. The book reveals the inner workings of diplomacy at t…
1,003 viewsHenry Kissinger was interviewed about his book, Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises, published by Simon and Schuster. The book reveals the inner workings of diplomacy at t…
1,003 viewsEthel Rosenberg was executed by the U.S. government in June of 1953, with her husband Julius, for working to give nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. Anne Sebb…
392 viewsGiles Milton discussed post-World War II Berlin and the conflicts that arose between the four Allied countries that controlled sectors of the city. This was a virtual event hosted by Tattere…
788 viewsAnn Hagedorn profiled American-born Soviet spy, George Koval, who was able to secure security clearance to the U.S. atomic bomb project and relay confidential information to the Soviet Union…
683 viewsJessica Wilson, scholar in residence at the University of Dallas, talked about the late Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his use of art to combat propaganda. This virtual event wa…
888 viewsHarvard University history Professor Serhii Plokhy provided a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This was a virtual event hosted by the National Archives.
471 viewsMSNBC host Joe Scarborough described Harry Truman’s efforts to prepare America for the Cold War. This was a virtual program hosted by the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
469 viewsMartin Sherwin looked at the Cold War with a focus on the Cuban missile crisis. This was a virtual event hosted by Town Hall Seattle.
405 viewsScott Anderson looked at the early years of the Cold War as the CIA worked to counter the efforts of the KGB. This was a virtual event hosted by Left Bank Books in St. Louis.
982 viewsMilitary historian Ben Macintyre recalled the life of Soviet intelligence officer Ursula Bolton, who assumed a false identity in an English village in the years leading up to the Cold War as…
688 viewsSteve Vogel recounted the Cold War clandestine mission, “Operation Gold,” in which U.S. and British forces sought to dig a tunnel into East Berlin in order to capture KGB intelligence. The a…
660 viewsPulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss took viewer phone calls about his book, A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, on his father’s experiences being blacklisted fo…
431 viewsMary Elise Sarotte talked about her book, The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, about the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. In her book, the author reports …
1,881 viewsInvestigative journalist Annie Jacobsen talked about CIA covert operations from the Cold War to the present.
2,861 viewsHarvard University history and literature professor Duncan White looked at how Cold War propaganda was disseminated through literature in the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union.
1,025 viewsJonna Mendez, former chief of disguise at the CIA, recalled the many covert intelligence operations that she and her late husband and former CIA operative, Tony Mendez, conducted in Moscow d…
1,512 viewsBen Macintyre reported on a high-ranking KGB spy, Oleg Gordievsky, who worked for British Intelligence during the height of the Cold War. According to the author, it was Gordievsky’s intelli…
4,065 viewsGrace Kennan Warnecke was interviewed at the National Press Club’s Book Fair. She talked about her book, Daughter of the Cold War, about her childhood as the daughter of diplomat and histori…
420 viewsJournalist Monte Reel reported on the U-2 spy plane program of the Cold War-era and journalist Cam Simpson recounted the capture and killing of defense contractors working for the U.S., duri…
341 viewsProfessor Lerner discussed his book, The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy, published by the University Press of Kansas. The USS Pueblo was an aging carg…
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