8/22 For a redacted document, click here.
8/24 For a video of Lindsay Graham, click here. For a video on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, click here. For video of Hillary Clinton on Muammar Gaddafi's death, click here.
8/29 For 1933 speech by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, click here. For the video of Eisenhower's Farewell Address (from 6:50), click here.
9/12 For FDR's 1944 State of the Union address, click here.
9/14 For key dates of the Cold War, click here.
9/19 Poll on Ukraine war, click here. Cold War era movies about nuclear war: On the Beach, 1959 (2:30 minutes); Fail Safe, 1963; Dr. Srangelove, 1963; The Day After, 1983 (43:30). And the folk song about nuclear war, "We Will All Go Together When We Go," 1959.
9/21 The 1965 song "So Long Mom."
9/26 For a video on Zelensky in Canada, click here. Cold War map of Eastern Europe, click here.
9/28 For a 1997 video from CBS' 60 Minutes, click here.
10/3 On the Korean war, click here. For information on the CIA, click here.
10/5 For a promotional video on psychological operations by the military, "PsyWar," click here.
For the article mentioned in class about th CIA and insider stock trading, see Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan, and Suresh Naidu, "Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information," Quarterly Journal of Economics 126, no. 3, 2011. For full text, click here (click on "PDF").
10/31 For 1964 "Daisy" commercial, click here. For a video on antiwar music, click here. For Merle Haggard, click here.
11/2 For the 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds, click here (minute 117 for Ellsberg).
11/7 For a scene from The Godfather, Part 2, click here.
11/9 For the Zbigniew Brzezinski interview on Afghanistan, click here. For a map of Afghanistan, click here.
11/30 GWU documents on NATO/Russia, click here. For a video regarding the 2008 war in Georgia, click here. For a map of Ukraine, click here. For a video on the Nordstream pipeline, click here.
12/5 For a map of NATO expansion, click here.