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Formerly classified "Top Secret," this document is President Harry Truman's order relieving General Douglas MacArthur of his Korean War commands due to insubordination, and designating General Matthew Ridgway as his successor. It includes a statement…

John F. Kennedy addresses the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis

A comic book that was used as Cold War propaganda

The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm), meeting in the White House Cabinet Room, sorted through intelligence and advised the President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This document contains a transcript of President Kennedy's speech addressing the Cuban Missile Crisis. It details the aftermath as well as the effect his speech had on the world.

Soviet Union flag and the flag of the United States of America

A photo of the Stars and Stripes flies over a Leatherneck command post in Korea.

First witness was Ex-Communist Danny Dare, 48, Hollywood producer, director and writer, who gave a dramatic recital of how Communist propaganda is subtly inserted into Hollywood film and stage play plots. Photo dated: March 23, 1953.

An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial…

In this memoir Julio A. Mestre recounts the events of the Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) at Playa Girón, Cuba. Mestre fought along with the CIA-sponsored group Brigade 2506 of which most of its members were captured and imprisoned