Our virtual SHAFR exhibit

On the occasion of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2021 conference, we invite you to save 30% off and free shipping on the titles featured here through August 1, 2021. Just enter promo code MAS024 at checkout to save.

At Manifold@UMassPress, we’ve also brought together sample chapters from the newest books in the Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond series, which is edited by Scott Laderman (University of Minnesota, Duluth) and Edwin A. Martini (Western Michigan University).

If you have projects in process that seem like a good match for the series, we’d encourage you to reach out to the series editors or our editor in chief, Matt Becker ([email protected]), to arrange a meeting.

AVAILABLE JUNE 2021

We are particularly excited to celebrate the launch of Making the Forever War: Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism, edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Mary L. Dudziak, and featuring an afterword from Andrew Bacevich. This essential volume brings Young’s articles and essays on American war together for the first time, including never before published works.


We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan
Where is Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War
For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy
Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter
Contested Ground: The Tunnel and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America
Museum Diplomacy: Transnational Public History and the U.S. Department of State

Clearer than Truth: The Polygraph and the American Cold War
Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America’s Global Drug War
The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History