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HIST 438: Topics in Cold War History

Course guide for HIST 438 (Vietnam Wars: Fall 2023; Cold War Berlin: Winter 2024)

Find Secondary Sources

Find books and eBooks

Find peer-reviewed articles

TIP:  You can search both Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life simultaneously! After opening one of the databases, click "Choose Databases". In the pop-up window, click the other database. Now any search you conduct will occur on both platforms!

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US Documents

British Documents

Canadian Documents

Australian Documents

Newspapers & Magazines

English

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Cold War Berlin

Databases, Archives, and Primary Source Websites

Newspapers

Vietnam Wars

U.S. Documents

British Documents

Vietnamese Documents

Foreign-Language Documents in Translation

To find print and eBooks in our collection, search: su:Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Sources.

Other Sources

Other Cold War Databases

Citations

History as a discipline uses the Chicago Manual of Style (18th edition) for citations, and usually the Notes-Bibliography form. This requires creating properly formatted footnotes footnotes and a Bibliography for your assignments. Resources to understand the Chicago style of citations are included below.

Note: Chicago Manual of Style updated to the 18th edition in September 2024.

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