If the house itself is devoted to the interwar era, the collection is all about the Cold War.
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But there was also the fact that, for most of the interwar period, the US didn't want the job.
In many ways, the post-Cold War period resembles the interwar interregnum, during which military powers experimented with new technologies, organizations, and doctrine.
In interwar Europe, dictatorship was popular in many countries because it seemed to offer a way out from economic and social chaos.
And as damaging and prolonged as its downturn has been, it has lasted nowhere near as long as the turmoil that afflicted Europe in the interwar years.
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But John Maynard Keynes's plans for the post-1945 monetary system were aimed at limiting the imbalances that arose in the interwar system, and have popped up again in the past 20 years.
In "Ivy Style: Radical Conformists, " out last month from Yale University Press, fashion scholar Patricia Mears traces the history of the modern sport coat to the interwar years, when Princetonians liberated tweed jackets from their matching bottoms.
In the UK, the richest 1% take about 14% of all income - the highest since World War II but lower than the interwar period, according to the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance.
The fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death, the collapse of trade and migration in the interwar years of the 20th century: all these either slowed the process of globalisation or stopped it in its tracks, albeit only temporarily.
In an interwar Britain convulsed by a fresh set of shocks - the great depression, mass unemployment, the rise of fascism in Europe - it's hardly surprising that readers looked on such places as a nostalgic reminder of an apparently simpler time before August 1914.
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