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Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), by Jini Kim Watson (PDF files at JSTOR)
Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Eric Keenaghan (PDF at Ohio State)

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Filed under: Cold War

ANZUS and the Early Cold War: Strategy and Diplomacy Between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945-1956 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Andrew Kelly (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party (Boston: South End Press, c1991), by Russ Bellant, contrib. by Chip Berlet (PDF at Wayback Machine)
The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970 (Edmonton; AU Press, c2018), by Anthony Carew (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual-Use Anthropology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by David H. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
Communism: The Ideology Fades, the Threat Remains (1990), by Americanism Educational League (multiple formats at archive.org)
Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)
American Cryptology During the Cold War, 1945-1989 (4 volumes; declassified redacted version, published 1995-1999), by Thomas R. Johnson
The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), by David L. Snead (PDF at Ohio State)
The World's Dilemma and A Way Out: Liberation of the Peoples of the Soviet Union (ca. 1953), by American Committee for Liberation From Bolshevism
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Measures Short of War: The George F. Kennan Lectures at the National War College, 1946-47, by George F. Kennan, ed. by Giles D. Harlow and George C. Maerz (PDF files at ndu.edu)

Filed under: Cold War -- Fiction

Forbidden Area (c1956), by Pat Frank (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
An Affair of State (c1948), by Pat Frank (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

Filed under: Cold War -- Social aspects

The Cold War From the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021), by Theodora Dragostinova (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

Filed under: Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States

Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Paul S. Boyer (PDF at Ohio State)
The Game of Death: Effects of the Cold War on Our Children (New York: Cameron and Kahn, 1953), by Albert Eugene Kahn (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Cold War -- Sources

On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946 to 1961 (Washington: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1999), ed. by Donald P. Steury (page images at HathiTrust)
A Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary, on United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, April 14, 1950 (declassified copy of NSC 68, released 1975), ed. by James S. Lay (PDF at trumanlibrary.org)
Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years, ed. by Woodrow J. Kuhns (HTML and PDF files at webharvest.gov)
At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991, ed. by Benjamin B. Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Literature

Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Literature -- Aesthetics

Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

Filed under: Literature -- Anecdotes

Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

Filed under: Literature -- Bibliography

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Literature -- Collections

Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
- page images at HathiTrust
- without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
Oriental Literature (4 volumes in The Worlds Great Classics, revised editions; New York and London: Colonial Press, c1899-1900), ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Epiphanius Wilson

Filed under: Literature -- Computer network resources

Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amy E. Earhart (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)

Filed under: Literature -- Data processing

A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), by Katherine Bode (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, ed. by Kenneth M. Price and Raymond George Siemens (HTML at mla.org)

Filed under: Literature -- Dictionaries

A Handbook to Literature (revised and enlarged edition; New York: Odyssey Press, c1960), by William Flint Thrall, Addison Hibbard, and C. Hugh Holman (page images at HathiTrust)
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
Heroes and Heroines of Fiction (two volumes in one; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, c1914-1915), by William S. Walsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
Who Wrote It? An Index to the Authorship of the More Noted Works in Ancient and Modern Literature (title page missing, but apparently the 1881 Lee and Shepard edition), by William A. Wheeler, ed. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
Who Wrote It? An Index to the Authorship of the More Noted Works in Ancient and Modern Literature (1968 facsimile reprint; original publication Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881), by William A. Wheeler, ed. by Charles G. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1873), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (based on 1894 edition), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), ed. by William Thomas Brande and Joseph Cauvin (page images at HathiTrust)
A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge: With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854), by William Thomas Brande, contrib. by Joseph Cauvin
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)

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