The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years

The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The effort to mobilize intellectual talent during the war established new links between the government and the academy. After the war, many of those who had worked with the military or the Office of Strategic Studies took jobs in the burgeoning postwar structure of university—based military research and intelligence agencies, bringing large infusions of government m...