Donna Alvah is in the Department of History at SLU, where she teaches courses on US foreign relations and wars – World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Her current projects focus on children and youth in the Cold War; children’s assistance to the militaries in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the wars there; children’s fears of the prospect of nuclear war and adults’ responses to these fears; and on children’s and youths’ experiences of, and perspectives on, the Cold War in the United States and other countries.