Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and House. "Committee on Foreign Affairs:"
- ProQuest Congressional PublicationsSelect the Advanced Search;
Use the drop-down menu to select "Congressional Source;"
Enter "Committee on Foreign Relations" or "Committee on Foreign Affairs;"
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Declassified diplomatic correspondence, memos, etc.
- Declassified Documents Reference System, U.S.Coverage begins immediately following World War II, when declassified documents were first made widely available.
- Foreign Relations of the United States (via Hein Online)Scroll through the menu to find Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS). Enter your search, or select the Advanced Search.
Please note: The date limit can be confusing for this title since it is returning the volumes published on that date, rather than documents published on that date. Volumes are published many years after the date of the documents.
Also available in print:
Olin LIbrary, JX 233. A3 [6th floor, regular size section]
Title varies slightly. Years held:
- 1870-1931
- 1932-1961/1963
- 1964/1968:v.1-18,20-34
- 1969/1976:v.I-VI,XI-XII,XIV,XVII-XVIII,XX,XXIV,XXIX-XXXI,XXXIX,XL
- Supplements: "Emergence of the intelligence establishment" (1945/1950)
- "The intelligence community" (1950/1955)
- 1952/1954:v.IV
See also:
- United States. Dept. of State. Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943. Call number: JX 233 .A378
- United States. Dept. of State. The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945. Call number: JX 233 .A38
- United States. Dept. of State. Historical Office. The Conference of Berlin; the Potsdam Conference, 1945. Call number: JX 233 .A46
Digitized volumes are also available from the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian Web site, both online and as ebooks.
- National Security ArchiveThe National Security Archives collects documents released via Freedom of Information Act requests.
The freely available material on the website includes Electronic Briefing Books providing overviews and selected documents on over 450 topics.
Proquest is digitizing the complete archive on a collection-by-collection basis. See below: - Proquest Digital National Security ArchiveDigitized collections of the National Security Archive.
Note: The library has been purchasing collections by request.
Browsing the collection:
The Digital National Security Archive is now only available within the standard Proquest Interface. To get a better sense of what is in a particular collection, see the collection list - U.S. Intelligence on the Middle EastA collection of recently-declassified documents on US intelligence efforts in the Middle East.
- U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy : A Video History, 1945-2004Starting with World War II and the atomic bombing of Japan, this policy-oriented documentary takes the story of U.S. nuclear policy, with a focus on the history of nuclear deterrence through the course of the Cold War, and then from the early post-Cold War period to the aftermath of 9/11."
For a breakdown of the contents of each disc, see Annex C. - Wilson Center Digital Archive -- Nuclear History"Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP) explores the international history of nuclear weapons and their proliferation using archival documents and oral history interviews from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, China, Israel, India, South Africa, Sweden and more. (Image, Enrico Fermi, Smithsonian)"
For more information about the declassification process, see: National Declassification Center
Catalog search:
For more primary source materials, search the Library Catalog: LC Subject Heading: United States--Foreign Relations--Sources
Miscellaneous
- Lester Crown Center on US Foreign PolicyIncludes public opinion polls on US foreign policy, since 1974.