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HIST 423: Divided Germany and the Cold War

This guide contains resources and information related to Germany and the Cold War as part of the course HIST 423: Advanced Topics in Modern Germany.

Scholarly Journal & Resource Collections

Berlin Wall Memorial
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Museum
Deutsches Historiches Museum (German History Museum)
Germany's national history museum in Berlin.
International Spy Museum
(Washington, DC-based commercial institution)

JSTOR
Full-text digital archive of over 2600 scholarly journals, especially strong in Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, and Mathematics.

National Cryptologic Museum
National Security Agency resource documenting U.S. cryptologic history

Project Muse
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

Stasi Museum
Berlin Museum documenting the history of the East German secret police.
Victims of Communism Museum
Washington, DC museum opening in 2022.
Wende Museum
Culver City, CA museum preserving Cold War artifacts and history from Central/Eastern European countries