Explore the Cold War period, one of the most significant and tense times in modern history. Unlike traditional wars fought ...

In 1951 dozens of young Europeans descended on the campus of Harvard University to take part in a 10-week, all-expenses-paid summer seminar on American history and culture. The program’s chief ...

Like many Cold War-era propagandists, Newitz voices deep concerns about the implications of propaganda for democracy.

Does that mean that science was just a tool for propaganda, or were scientists actually collecting intelligence during the Cold War?

Bari Ziperstein's rollicking "Propaganda Pots" at Nino Mier come by their collective title honestly. Just after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, a government-run porcelain factory began producing ...

During the Cold War, the dominant Red Army hockey team was a symbol of the supposed superiority of the Soviet system (which was why the underdog U.S. win in the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Winter ...

In April, South Korean troops fired warning shots to repel about 10 North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the military ...

Before midcentury was a household name, the State Department used MoMA's "Good Design" exhibitions to sell the American vision of consumerism abroad.

The Cold War wasn’t just fought in the White House and the Kremlin. In American and Soviet homes, the capitalism-communism divide was a topic of conversation at many a kitchen table — and ...

The new militarism, flourishing and augmented by propaganda after the “annexation of Crimea” and the war in Eastern Ukraine, became the support of the information war and populism, destroying ...