#  Private Research Organizations 

 



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[**The Cold War International History Project**](https://www.wilsoncenter.org/program/cold-war-international-history-project)  
The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) was established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., in 1991 with the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War. By publishing an unprecedented collection of documents, initially through the CWIHP Bulletin and, since 2013, through the [Wilson Center's Digital Archive](https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/), the Project seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" and the non-Western world more generally with the historiography of the Cold War.

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[**The National Security Archive**](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/)  
Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the *Los Angeles Times*), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets

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[**International Institute of Social History**](https://socialhistory.org/en)  
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) was founded in 1935. It is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular. Most of the collections are open to the public. The site also containts the ArcheoBiblioBase information system on archival repositories in the Russian Federation, maintained by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted in collaboration with Rosarkhiv, the Federal Archival Service of Russia.

   ![Hoover Institution Library & Archives logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/Hoover%20Institution%20Library%20%26%20Archives%2C%20Stanford%20University.jpg?itok=jrppG04y) 

 

[**Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University**](https://www.hoover.org/library-archives)  
Since 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University has become an international center for documentation and research. It serves as a learning organization and a repository of knowledge holding more than one million volumes and over 6,000 archival collections pertaining to war, revolution, and peace.

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[**The Parallel History Project**](https://phpisn.ethz.ch/lory1.ethz.ch/index.html)  
The Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP, the former Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact), provides new scholarly perspectives on contemporary international history by collecting, publishing, and interpreting formerly secret governmental documents. In response to the [declassification of NATO records](https://phpisn.ethz.ch/lory1.ethz.ch/services/declassification/index.html) and the growing availability of documents from archives in Eastern and Central Europe, PHP as a [cooperative undertaking of more than twenty partner institutes ](https://phpisn.ethz.ch/lory1.ethz.ch/net/index.html)brings together leading Cold War historians, archivists, and government officials. The findings are presented to the specialist academic community at conferences and published both in print and on the PHP website.

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[**Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism**](http://www.hait.tu-dresden.de/ext/homepage.asp)  
The HAIT pursues the systematic study of National Socialism and Communism, as well as the preconditions and consequences of both systems of domination. As ideological dictatorships they shaped the 20th century in a crucial way. Their consequences will continue to pose a burden in the present and future. The research focusses on the political, social and cultural developments in totalitarian regimes. Studied are their preconditions in terms of ideology and intellectual history, their organisational structures and their concrete impact on people’s lives. Particular attention is devoted to the analysis of opposition and resistance against the two German dictatorships. Interdisciplinary approaches to history, the political, cultural and social sciences and comparative perspectives govern the Institute's research endeavours, which also include the critical analysis of political extremism in history and the present.

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[**The Miller Center of Public Affairs** ](/)  
The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history, providing critical insights for the nation's governance challenges.

  
[**The Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies**](http://www.machiavellicenter.net/)  
After many years of close but informal cooperation, in the year 2000, a group of Italian Cold War historians decided to set up a formal arrangement in order to coordinate their research projects and link their efforts to the international programs studying the same historical period. This led to the creation of an inter-university center which includes a number of Departments from the Universities of Florence, Padua, Pavia, Perugia, Roma Tre, and Urbino. The project rotates around the activities of the *Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato* of the University of Florence, perhaps the most important Academic institution for international studies in Italy and certainly the core of a large network of international Academic contacts.

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[**Fondazione Istituto Gramsci**](https://www.fondazionegramsci.org/)  
The Fondazione Istituto Gramsci was founded in 1982, on the basis of the former Istituto Gramsci born in 1950. Its main lines of work are the following: Gramscian studies; implementing and capitalizing on archives and library holdings; research into the history of Republican Italy; the study of twentieth-century international history; analysis of the European integration process. The Foundation's archives are an invaluable resource for the study of twentieth-century Italy's political, social, and cultural history, such as the PCI historical archive (1921-1991) and holdings of personalities linked to the history of Communism and of Italian culture. The archive is supported by a rich library specializing in the same issues. The Foundation's permanent publications are its *Annali*, the journal *Studi Storici*, and the *Rapporto annuale sull'integrazione europea*. The Foundation is also committed to developing the Edizione nazionale degli scritti di Antonio Gramsci and to editing an international bibliography of Gramscian studies.

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[**The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project**](https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/)  
The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials. The project currently provides access to materials for seven of the thirteen trials: IMT (prosecution documents), NMT 1-4, 7 and 9. The remainder of the trials (including the IMT defense documents) are currently being processed.

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[**The Niels Bohr Archive**](https://www.nbarchive.dk/)  
The Niels Bohr Archive (NBA) is an independent institution overseen by the University of Copenhagen with its own board of directors. Located at the Niels Bohr Institute, it holds extensive archival material documenting the life and work of Niels Bohr, the institute that he established and the tradition that they created. NBA produces its own research and publications, and makes its archival collections available to researchers worldwide. It has also developed a public outreach function. Over the years it has established itself as a central institution for documenting the history of modern physics and its social and philosophical implications. It is currently working to expand its archival and research activities.

   ![Center for Cold War Studies International History logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-04/Center%20for%20Cold%20War%20Studies%20International%20History%20logo.png?itok=eEXaSai7) 

 

[**University of California Santa Barbara, Center for Cold War Studies International History**](http://www.history.ucsb.edu/ccws/)  
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History at UC Santa Barbara (CCWS) is a leading international center dedicated to the study of the Cold War, broadly conceived, and related international topics. Founded in 1994 by Professors [Tsuyoshi Hasegawa](http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/tsuyoshi-hasegawa/) and [Fredrik Logevall](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/fredrik-logevall) and their graduate students, CCWS hosts a wide variety of events on the UCSB campus. It also has an affiliation with the Cold War centers at [George Washington University](https://ieres.elliott.gwu.edu/programs/gw-cold-war-group/) and the [London School of Economics](http://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/projects/cold-war-studies), joining with them to host the [International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War](https://ccws.history.ucsb.edu/conferences).

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[**Oxford Bibliographies -- The Cold War**](http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0068.xml)

[**History in Resources -- Guide to Websites on the Cold War**](https://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/cold/websites.html)

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[**Fordham University -- Sourcebook on "A Bipolar World"**](https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/modsbook46.asp)

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[**Cold War History Research Center - Budapest**](http://www.coldwar.hu/)  
The essence of the Center’s research conception and the novelty of its approach lies in its integration of research and study of Hungary’s foreign policy with the newest results of the international Cold War research that has become increasingly intense since the beginning of the 1990’s. Besides the emphasis on the comparative feature of the research, this is reflected first of all in the aim of analyzing what the documents, information and new interpretations based on the systematic exploration of the Hungarian archival sources can contribute to the authentic reconstruction of the global history of the Cold War.