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Sources and Methods presents fresh archival evidence and new insights into contemporary international history.

Nuclear History

Antarctic Arms Control at 60: A Precedent or a Pole Apart?

Dec 02, 2019
 // Ryan Alexander Musto

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Cold War

A New Socialist Hungary? Remembering the Defeat of the Hungarian Revolution 63 Years Later

Dec 04, 2019
 // Cole Falkner
A toppled statue of Stalin in Hungary, 1956. Source: Fortepan #93005, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cold War

Recovering Disputed Sound: RFE Hungarian Revolution Broadcasts

Oct 31, 2019
 // A. Ross Johnson
A merchant in the Millionka. Source: State Archive of Primorsk Region (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Primorskogo kraia) in Vladivostok. Obtained by Austin Jersild.
Cold War

Chinese in Peril in Russia: The “Millionka” in Vladivostok, 1930-1936

Oct 29, 2019
 // Austin Jersild
Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki speaks before the United Nations on the denuclearization of Central Europe. Source: UN Audiovisual Library, #2232383.
Nuclear History

Polish Perspectives on the Rapacki Plan for the Denuclearization of Central Europe

Sep 23, 2019
 // Ryan Alexander Musto
Happy 2nd Lt. William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Red Army, near Torgau, Germany in April 1945. Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, #531276.
Cold War

The Soviet Side of the Cultural Cold War

Sep 23, 2019
 // Rósa Magnúsdóttir
Image: A helicopter sprays a decontamination liquid nearby the Chernobyl reactor in 1986. Source: IAEA Imagebank #02790036, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nuclear History

28 Newly Translated Documents on Chernobyl, 1973-1991

Sep 16, 2019
 // Rose Hinman
Image: Professor M.S. Narasimhan demonstrating the first Indian digital computer to Jawaharlal Nehru and Homi Bhabha at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nuclear History

India's Department of Atomic Energy: A Page in History

Sep 16, 2019
 // Martand Jha
Swedish leader Olof Palme demonstrates against the war with the North Vietnamese ambassador to Moscow during a a torchlight march, February 1968. Source: Public Domain. Arbetarrörelsens arkiv, via WikiCommons.
Cold War

Acting Independently: The Vietnam War and the Roots of Sweden’s Foreign Policy

Aug 22, 2019
 // Naman Habtom-Desta
FUGITIVE: Josef Mengele, from left, Nazi Party membership application, Berlin, 1937; German passport photo, Buenos Aires, 1956; Argentine identity card, Asuncion, Paraguay, 1959 Images courtesy San Diego State University Network TV News Research Archive.
Cold War

Auschwitz’s Cold War Shadow: Eva Kor’s Life and Josef Mengele’s Death

Aug 22, 2019
 // John Martin
Cold War

Operation “Denver”: KGB and Stasi Disinformation regarding AIDS

Jul 22, 2019
 // Douglas Selvage, Christopher Nehring
Cold War

New Documentary Release on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

Jul 12, 2019
 // A. Ross Johnson
Hồ Chí Minh at the French Communist Party Congress, Marseille, 1921. Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Cold War

The Myth of the Wilsonian Moment

Jun 17, 2019
 // Brett Reilly