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This 1951 Armed Forces Information Service film dramatizes the effects of an imagined Communist invasion on an American small town. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring…

American History TV toured the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., with founding director Elizabeth Spalding. The museum is within sight of the White House, and is designed to…

Cold War historian Victoria Phillips explored the anti-communist trading cards that the Bowman Bubblegum Company released in 1951. The 48 cards in the “Fight the Red Menace” series depicted…

Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, traveled around the world in July of 1956 with stops in Hawaii, the Philippines, Taiwan, South Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan, and Turkey. Highlights…

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev talked about his book Memoirs. He talked about his career as a Communist Party leader and his contributions to the breakup of the Soviet Union.

President Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a joint news conference at the White House. Topics addressed included U.S-Germany relations, global COVID-19 vaccine distribution, climate change,…

Jessica Wilson, scholar in residence at the University of Dallas, talked about the late Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his use of art to combat propaganda. This virtual event…

Author and journalist Evan Thomas talked about the impact and legacy of U.S. diplomat George Kennan and his “Long Telegram” with Truman Presidential Library director Kurt Graham. On February 22, 1946, U.S.…

This film produced at the height of the Cold War shows examples of Soviet anti-American propaganda, and outlines U.S. efforts to promote American values around the globe using radio, print,…

Fulton, Missouri’s Westminster College invited Winston Churchill to speak in March, 1946--not long after the British prime minister, who guided England through World War II, was voted out of office. Townspeople welcomed…

Military historian Geoff Babb discussed the influence of the United States, Europe; Japan, and Russia in early 20th century China. Babb argued that the Chinese communist movement was…

University of Virginia Professor Kevin Gaines looked back to the Cold War era and explained how opponents of the civil rights movement associated it with communism and how similar methods…

This Cold War-era film from the U.S. Army’s “Big Picture” series focuses on the efforts of U.S. military advisers to arm, train, and help Taiwan prepare for a potential attack by Communist…

Biographer Larry Tye recounted the life of the late Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin. This was a virtual event hosted by the Wisconsin Book Festival.

Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil talked about their book, Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer, on China’s secret operations around the world. Then, Jude Blanchette moderated…

Labor activist and longtime communist Tony Pecinovsky talked about the history of the Communist Party USA and profiled six of its leaders.

Former Secretary of State James Baker discussed the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mr. Baker served in President George H.W. Bush’s administration when the guards at the wall’s checkpoints…

Viewers commented on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the guarded concrete barrier that from 1961 to 1989 divided the German city into two parts. This program was part of an American…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled a 7-foot statue of Ronald Reagan on the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Helen Zia talked about her book, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution, in which she reported on the four individuals who fled Shanghai…