Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern history — the unprecedented barnstorming across America in the fall of 1959 by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the world leader of communism and America’s arch nemesis. At the very height of the Cold War, with American schoolchildren practicing duck-and-cover drills, the man who Americans feared could incinerate them in a rain of hydrogen bombs arrived in Washington, D.C. at the invitation of President Eisenhower. For both men, the visit was an opportunity to halt the escalating threats of the Cold War and chart a new course toward peaceful coexistence. For the American press, it was the media blockbuster story of the year.
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As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
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On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...
Unaccompanied by narration or interviews, contemporary imagery drawn from science fiction films, gov...
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...
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