http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOUtZOqgSG8 [ If that's blocked at your school, it's on Netflix.] The movie Atomic Cafe The folks in my group on last morning had not seen this documentary so I'd thought I'd put this out to all...it is a fabulous primary source montage of the Cold War on the homefront in the 50's - all newsreels and propaganda films put out by Defense Dept, Air Force and Army. Areas of focus are Soviet Communism, civil defense against agianst a nuclear attack, and the effects of radiation. Highly recommend it.
http://www.brookings.edu/comm/childrensroundtable/issue2.pdf
Graph of Distribution of real wage and salary earnings for full year full time male workers as compared to 1961(used by Prof. Brinkley in his lecture)
http://wpscms.pearsoncmg.com/wps/media/objects/1693/1733989/images/img_w066.html
"How Communism Works" pamphlet (used by Prof. Brinkley in his lecture)
http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/Fist.html
Harvard Strike Poster w/ fist and list of student demands (used by Prof. Brinkley in his lecture)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOUtZOqgSG8 [ If that's blocked at your school, it's on Netflix.]
The movie Atomic Cafe
The folks in my group on last morning had not seen this documentary so I'd thought I'd put this out to all...it is a fabulous primary source montage of the Cold War on the homefront in the 50's - all newsreels and propaganda films put out by Defense Dept, Air Force and Army. Areas of focus are Soviet Communism, civil defense against agianst a nuclear attack, and the effects of radiation. Highly recommend it.