Cold War
ETHS Content Essays, Primary Sources, and Student Activities
Estes Kefauver
Key Words: Estes Kefauver, Communism, Red Scare, McCarthyism, Organized Crime
Upcoming Teacher Workshops at the East Tennessee History Center
Field Trips or Outreach Programs from East Tennessee History Center
Key Words: Estes Kefauver, Communism, Red Scare, McCarthyism, Organized Crime
Excellent website from the BBC with articles on a variety of Cold War topics from British point of view
Online exhibit from Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on the Space Race
Article from Britannica on McCarthyism and Television
Amazing website with presidential campaign advertisements from 1952 to the present
Article on impact of Estes Keafauver’s televised hearings on organized crime
Estes Kefaver Primary Source Collection
Cansler, Sarah. “ ‘Stamp Out This Awful Cancer’: The Fear of Radicals, Atheists, and Modernism at the University of Tennessee in the 1920s.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 85 (2013): 48-69.
Hicks, Bobby Eugene. “The Great Objector: The Life and Public Career of Dr. John R. Neal.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 41 (1969): 33-66.
Klein, Milton M. “Academic Freedom at the University of Tennessee: The McCarthy Era.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 69 (1997): 62-83.
Weaver, Michael E. “Making a Difference: The Tennessee Air National Guard during the Berlin Crisis, 1961-1962.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 79 (2007): 1-19.