In a new book 'Presidents At War,' historian Steven M. Gillon takes a look at how World War II impacted a generation of ...

President Eisenhower and the Cold War and Civil Rights. Dwight D. Eisenhower is a fixture in the lists of America's favourite Presidents. How did Eisenhower change America? How did the Cold War and ...

But more often than not, the restraint and moderation he exercised was a fitting antidote to the dangerous rhetoric of those early Cold War days. Eisenhower promoted a stable economy and fought to ...

The books include: Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (1967); The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Vols. 1-5 (1967); The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General ...

Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander ...

The post-war years of 1950s America are typically described ... Like most Americans of the day, Dwight Eisenhower had moved through his life in a largely segregated society. The Abilene of his ...