Declassified diplomatic correspondence, memos, etc.
- Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian Web site. Many volume are now available online and as downloadable ebooks.
- 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 in the top window, or select the Advanced Search.
Please note: The date limit can be confusing. In some cases, 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. - 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, go to http://proquest.libguides.com/dnsa/collectionlist. - Declassified Documents Reference System, U.S.The database ranges from the years immediately following World War II, when declassified documents were first made widely available, through 1992 (as of 11/22/2011).
- U.S. Intelligence on the Middle EastA collection of recently-declassified documents on US intelligence efforts in the Middle East.
For more information about the declassification process, see: National Declassification Center
Print volumes of FRUS
- Foreign Relations of the United StatesCall Number: Olin Library, JX233 .A3Title varies slightly:
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:
Foreign relations of the United States
Diplomatic papers. The Soviet Union, 1933-1939. Call number: JX233 .A37
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