The Cold War -- a pivotal era in American history
In 1968, I crossed the Iron Curtain at the Austria-Czech border. I was on a tour of Europe with my college choir. Seeing the real border, fence, wire, guards - it literally made me ill. I was crossing the Iron Curtain - a scary business! There is no time machine to take you back to the Cold War years - our databases and our print collection can, hopefully, fill you in on what was going on at the time.
Where are the databases? Go to www.wildelake.com. Click on the Academic button on the toolbar and select Research Databases. The databases are listed in alphabetical order. Working on this at home? The passwords for home access are in your agenda books.
I found this picture of a truck during the Korean War at one of our databases - ABC-Clio American History. I used the worlds cold war as a search term and found an article with links to an overview of the period. The links include images, documents, quotes, biographies and more.
Search the SIRS database with the term cold war and you will get web links, images, primary sources, research articles and more. Click on Thompson-Gale and go to Student Resouce Center Gold - cold war is a topic right on the front page.
Something new under our Thompson-Gale link is our collection of eBooks. An eBook works like a database - you can search it by keyword or topic. You can also view the information PDF style, so you can see the pages just the way the'd look in the book. Try the link here called eBooks - Social Studies. The sets to search here are American Decades and American Decades: Primary Sources. I'll be glad to show you how to use these new tools.
A great introduction to the what the cold war period covers is found in the World Book Encyclopedia entry. It's well organized, has images and includes links to special reports and web sites.
Don't forget to view The Living Room Candidate . This site has links to presendential campaign commercials - the look and topics of these commercials give you a window to the Cold War era.
And remember - we've got lots of books, too! Any questions? Just ask.
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