Teaching the History of the Present
For a special issue of Modern Intellectual History, edited by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, I have a piece co-written with my colleague Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, about teaching the history of the present. Both […]
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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 […]
“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 […]
Debating Political Economy: An Approach to Teaching the U.S. and the World
In the Journal of American History vol. 103, no. 4 (March 2017), I have an essay in the textbooks and teaching section about using weekly debates, and a political economy frame, […]
The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores
An article I’ve written, “The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores,” was published in the Journal of Latin American Studies vol 48., no. 2 (May 2016). It is available at […]
El imperialismo de la libertad: El Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura en América Latina
For my Spanish-speaking readers / para mis lectores hispanohablantes: En 2012, publiqué, en un capítulo del libro “La guerra fría cultural en América Latina,” editado por Benedetta Calandra y Marina […]
Managing Mexico’s Cold War: Vicente Lombardo Toledano and the Uses of Political Intelligence
I have a short article in the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research as part of a special dossier on the use of Mexican secret police archives for writing […]
“Who Will Impose Democracy?”: Sacha Volman and the Contradictions of CIA Support for the Anticommunist Left in Latin America
I have an article in Diplomatic History, and available at the link. [UPDATE: It appeared in print in Diplomatic History 37, no. 5, November 2013. An article review by Ernesto Semán of the […]
De-centering Cold War History
I have an essay in this recently-published volume, edited by Jadwiga Pieper Mooney and Fabio Lanza (Amazon; Routledge book page which has a detailed content list). The book project arose […]
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