IGY History

Some relevant links

Some Historical Aspects of IGY Administration and Policy, Space and Polar Studies, and Data Centers

International Council for Science (ICSU)

National Academy of Science
 (alternate NAS site)

IGY Gold Club - recognizing IGY participants

NASA's Origins and the Dawn of the Space Age (Monographs in Aerospace History # 10)

Cliff Lethbridge's chronology of the first artificial satellites

Naval Historical Center, Operation Deep Freeze

The International Geophysical Year of 1957 to 1958: An analysis of why both the executive and legislative branches of the US Government funded the IGY of 1957 to 1958 (full text)
by Fae Korsmo, NSF
Science, People and Politics,Volume 2, 1.1.07

Science in the Cold War: The Legacy of the International Geophysical Year
by Fae Korsmo, NSF
Special Scientific Report #98-07 (full text download; alternate site)

World Data Center and the IGY

Wikipedia entry