The Cold War Home Front in Southern California

FAIN: BH-231152-15

California State University, Long Beach Foundation (Long Beach, CA 90840-0004)
Tim W. Keirn (Project Director: February 2015 to May 2017)
David Neumann (Co Project Director: September 2015 to May 2017)

Two one-week workshops for seventy-two school teachers on Southern California’s technological and cultural transformation from the 1940s to the early 1980s through wartime and Cold War aerospace development.

Cold War Home Front is an NEH Landmarks of American Culture workshop series structured to help teachers learn deep historical content about the Cold War and engage that material thoughtfully through workshops by historians, discussion of important readings in history, visits to important historic sites and regional museums, and exploration of outstanding digital primary source materials.