The Cold War was an era of hostility between the United States (and our democratic allies) and the Soviet Union (and their communist allies) that began after World War II. During the fifties and sixties, the threat of nuclear attack loomed large, much the
CNN's Cold War site is a companion to their 1998 television documentary of the same name.
Best clicks at the virtual Cold War Museum are the Trivia Game ("Who was the founder of the Soviet Communist Party and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution?") and the decade-by-decade timeline that runs from the '40's to the '90's.
During the early Cold War years, CONELRAD was a national Emergency Broadcasting System.
For middle and high-school students, HistoryWiz is a nice combination of onsite features and related offsite links.
Steve Schoenherr is a history professor at the University of San Diego.
More than 600,000 Americans gave their lives for their country in the Civil War (1861-1865); more than any other war in our history. Although the North prevailed over the South, the grief and bitterness caused by the violence healed very slowly. Learn mor
Africans in America is a PBS multi-part history of slavery in America, and is my pick of the day.
The History Place presents the Civil War as an illustrated time line from Lincoln's election (November 6, 1860) to the ratification of the thirteenth amendment and the official end to American slavery (December 6, 1865.
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