Cold War Latin America (syllabus for graduate seminar)
History 730 Cold War Latin America Professor Patrick Iber This course will provide a forum for learning and discussing the history of Cold War Latin America. Central themes include […]
Category Archives: Cold War
The Cultural Cold War in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
An article I’ve written, simply called “The Cultural Cold War,” has been published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. This is an article-length piece that is supposed to give […]
Historia de las exposiciones en México
I gave a talk at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, part of UNAM. It was the closing speech for a conference on the “Historia de las exposiciones en México.” […]
Review of Wolfe, “Freedom’s Laboratory”
My review of Audra Wolfe’s “Freedom’s Laboratory,” up now at The New Republic. The book extends out understanding of the Cultural Cold War into the world of science. A sample: The […]
Review of two books on Cuba’s Cold War for The Nation
In The Nation, I have a review of Jonathan Brown’s Cuba’s Revolutionary World and Dirk Kruijt’s Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America. In February 1962, Fidel Castro spoke the words of the Second Declaration […]
Review of Arne Westad’s “The Cold War: A World History”
In The New Republic, I have a review of Odd Arne Westad’s “The Cold War: A World History.” (Wonderful illustration by Guy Billout.) This is an important book, and it’s a […]
“Social Science, Cultural Imperialism, and the Ford Foundation in the 1960s,” in The Global 1960s
I have a chapter in this edited volume, The Global 1960s, on how the Ford Foundation gets trapped by a climate of suspicion it helps create as it tries to move […]
