History Prof. Chris McKnight Nichols talks of isolationism and internationalism in the early Cold War and the transformations of the era marked by the election of 1952 in "Should the United States be an isolationist nation, or an internationalist one?" on the (Abridged) Presidential Histories podcast with Kenny Ryan. He discusses the question on the ballot during the 1952 election and Ike’s role in keeping the U.S. globally engaged in the Cold War.

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