The Cold War as Popular Culture

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and other TV shows like it helped young Americans learn what and who to be be afraid of, and most importantly, what our enemies looked like....

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Events 1977 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched
... and probably has been there for months, but new research is confirming the nature of this very interesting phenomenon.
A podcast from earlier in the year, celebrating Darwin's birthday. A few essays focusing on Darwin's Voyage on The Beagle
Charles Darwin wrote a book called Geological Observations on South America.

When you work your way through Voyage to the Bottom of Sea, I hope you realize that I Spy is on Hulu. Cold War politics plus Johnson-era race relations. Probably the heaviest Cold War show on TV at the time.

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