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The article reviews ClioVis, a digital history resource, available at https:// cliovis.com. Erika Bsumek, Ian Diaz, and Braeden Kennedy both developed and maintain the site at University of Texas at Austin.

The article examines what is referred to as the whistle-blowing campaign of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Philip Agee and his opposition to U.S. interventionist foreign policies, which became a part of a transnational campaign against the security state of the U.S. and several allies during the Cold War.

The author discusses methods for teaching students about the anti-Vietnam War movement in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s, particularly focusing upon misconceptions and myths that have arisen about the antiwar movement. It examines the antiwar movement in the context of the Cold War, cultural pluralism in the antiwar movement, and the concept of patriotism as it applied to the antiwar movement.

The article discusses teaching the U.S.'s foreign relations during the Cold War, with a particular focus on sports during this period. An overview of the teaching of race relations and international U.S. sports, including the professional boxer Muhammad Ali's (or Cassius Clay's) participation in the 1960 Rome, Italy Olympic Games, is provided. U.S.'s relations with the Soviet Union are discussed.

An essay is provided which discusses the U.S. Air Force's Ground Observer Corps (GOC), U.S. civil defense and American militarization during the Cold War of the late 1940s and 1950s, including the GOC's role in monitoring airplanes in the U.S. under the Air Force's Operation Skywatch. An overview of the efforts to recruit volunteers for the GOC program is provided.

The article discusses the politicization of the reform of U.S. mathematics curriculum during the mid-20th century, particularly focusing upon the U.S. organization the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored curriculum popularly known as new math. The author discusses the significance of school curriculum in studying political transformation, particularly during the Cold War, the establishment, implementation, and reaction to new math as a political intervention, and the role of the organization the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) director Edward G. Begle.

The article focuses on the Jewish congregation and leadership of Temple Beth El in Detroit, Michigan, moved to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1973, during the post-World War II era to explore notions of American urban white flight, urban activism, and the growth of suburbs. It explores the liberal commitment of Jews to civil rights, particularly efforts of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement. Some of the topics considered include the Detroit Riots of 1967, the Cold War, group identity, Jewish political participation, and American Jewish social networks and social activism.

The article discusses the role that oil played in the economic success of the U.S. in the 20th century. According to the article, the U.S. was the world's leading oil producer for much of the century; the U.S. government worked in close association with the industry to obtain and maintain control of foreign oil reserves. The author argues that access to oil was a significant plank in U.S. foreign policy and led to U.S. involvement in regional conflicts in Latin America, the Middle East, and other oil-producing areas. The article also examines the role of oil in World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.

The article presents a revised version of a presidential address the author gave at a conference for the Organization of American Historians on April 10, 2010 in Washington, D.C. regarding the topic of the relationship between national security and democracy in U.S. history. She argues that Cold War ideologies about capitalism, freedom, and Americanism have undermined the democratic rights of individuals in America since the end of World War II and examines the role that the media, including television and newspapers, have played in developing fears about nuclear warfare, communism, and crime for U.S. citizens. She also overviews the political factors that shaped the U.S. civil rights movement and comments on topics such as vigilante justice in motion pictures and the violent crime rate.

The article discusses the use of social science during the Cold War. The author reveals that American military officials actively collaborated with social scientists during the Cold War as part of an effort to contain the spread of Communism in emerging nations. The collaboration eventually led to the creation of the Special Operations Research Office, which was founded to study the political and social causes of the Communist revolution. The author details the history of the office and its impact on world history.

An essay on links between the U.S. civil rights movement and international relations during the Cold War, reprinted from the German version in "Vierteljahrschefte für Zeitgeschichte" (53, no. 3, 2003), is presented. The author notes the U.S.'s claims of leadership for the "free world" were undermined by domestic racial discrimination during the Cold War. He discusses the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) role in liberal anticommunism movements.

The author responds to the article "Mind and Matter--Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field," by Wayne E. Lee. The author considers Lee's views in the context of the coverage of military history of the West in Asia in such wars as World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Farrell feels that the traditional methods of studying these wars were forced to take into consideration the cultures, societies, and world views of the times. The Cold War forced new methodologies into the study of war to better understand vastly different cultural and social phenomena.

In this article the author comments on the farewell speech given by the distinguished professor of American Studies at the University of Amsterdam Rob Kroes, who retired in 2005. In his address Kroes discusses anti-Americanism and confessed he felt he was himself falling prey to it owing to policies enacted by the government of George W. Bush and by the initial acceptance of them by a majority of the American population. The author of this commentary on the speech analyzes anti-Americanism from an African perspective. Kroes spoke of the "Atlantic community," meaning the U.S. and Europe, but the author wants to expand that to become the "Atlantic world," thus including Africa. In the piece he points out that Nelson Mandela expressed anti-American views in the 1950s, but saw no difference between the European colonial nations and the imperial aspirations of the United States in the Cold War.

The author examines how Native Americans drew on the moral dimensions of Cold War ideology to resist federal antisovereignty policies. The author studies this by situating their post campaigns against civil rights in an international context. He also explores how Native Americans appealed to U.S. foreign aid programs such as the Marshall Plan and Point Four as models for refashioning federal Indian policy at home. Focusing on Native Americans' hybrid patriotism, the author considers how they made the Cold War relevant to their lives and incorporated international circumstances into their national and ethnic identities.

Examines the Brown versus Board of Education as Cold War case. Reason for the U.S. government's participation in the cases leading up to Brown versus Board of Education; Connections between Brown and the Cold War; International impact of Brown.

Discusses the excessive preoccupation with and anxiety about masculinity in the politics of the United States (U.S.) during the early Cold War era. Views of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a Harvard University historian, on liberal anticommunism; Lesson of the wartime encounter with totalitarianism; Concerns about the masculinity of men in the U.S.

Examines the treatment of the subject of the origin of the cold war in the history textbooks in the United States.

The article reviews the web sites "Cuban Missile Crisis," located at http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/cuban_missile_crisis/, from the U.S. National Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Security, and "Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective After 40 Years," located at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/, from the National Security Archive of George Washington University.

Discusses the exploration of changes in the international system as an approach to studies of U.S. foreign relations. Concerns regarding the role the U.S. in the Cold War; Details of emphasis put on the nature of capitalism in the development theory of the world system; Information on weaknesses of world systems theory, including the role of private economic actors in an extant economic system.

Discusses the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations during the Cold War. Use of Pakistan of its strategic importance in bargaining with the U.S.; Problem experienced by the U.S. in formulating a foreign policy that would be favorable to both Pakistan and India; Conflict between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by Pakistan and India.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses various reports within the journal on topics including labor and the cotton trade in India during the nineteenth century, the emotional aspects of the Cold War, and a U.S. ban preventing unauthorized immigrants from accessing welfare.

The article reviews the web site Cold War International History Project Digital Archive by the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. at http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org.