The library staff is available to
help you locate and search the following resources on US foreign
policy and diplomatic history.
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
Primary Sources
"The Foreign Relations of the United
States series presents the official documentary historical
record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant
diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the State
Department's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises
more than 350 individual volumes. The volumes published over the
last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from
all the foreign affairs agencies." (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/)
Volumes available on-line:
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
"This digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United
States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries.
This is an incomplete run from 1861-1960 with missing volumes
being added as they can be acquired and processed."
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/c1716.htm
"The State Department web site is a permanent electronic
archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001."
U.S. National
Archives & Records Administration (NARA) Primary
and Secondary Sources
"The National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent Federal agency
that preserves our nation's history and defines us as a people
by overseeing the management of all Federal records." http://www.archives.gov/index.html
National Security
Archive Primary
Sources
"The National Security
Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute
and library located at The George Washington University in Washington,
D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents
acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)."
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
The
CAT - The Penn State Libraries Catalog Primary
and Secondary Sources
"The online catalog of
materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals,
audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation
status for individual items also provided." E-Resource
List Click to Connect
America: History and LIfe
"America: History and
Life includes about 400,000 annotated or abstracted references
to American and Canadian history. Published since 1964,
the database includes over 2,000 journals worldwide, including
state and local historical journals as well as historical articles
from hundreds of major humanities and social science journals.
It also includes thousands of book and media reviews, citations
to published books, and dissertations." E-Resource
List Click to Connect
Columbia International
Affairs Online (CIAO)
"CIAO (Columbia International
Affairs Online) is a comprehensive source for research in international
affairs. It includes full text of selected books on international
affairs, working papers from university research institutes, occasional
papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects,
and proceedings from conferences. It also, contains abstracts
and some full text of selected journal articles." E-Resource
List Click to Connect
Policy File (Public
Policy Research & Analysis)
"PolicyFile draws its
content from public policy think tanks, university research programs,
research organizations and publishers." E-Resource
List Click to Connect
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
"Worldwide Political Science
Abstracts supplies up-to-date bibliographic information and research
within the political science discipline and its complementary
fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy
from 1975-to date." E-Resource List Click to Connect
Encyclopedias
and Dictionaries
Use
these reference books, available in Vairo Library, for historical
background on American diplomatic policies.
J. E. Findling. "Dictionary of American diplomatic history."
xxxiii, 674. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. REF E183.7 .F5
1989
M. D. Gambone. "Documents of American diplomacy : from the
American Revolution to the present." In Documentary reference
collections, xiii, 579. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
REF E183.7.D63 2002
B. W. Jentleson, T. G. Paterson, N. X. Rizopoulos and R. Council
on Foreign. "Encyclopedia of U.S. foreign relations."
4 v. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. REF E183.7.E53
1997 v.1 - v.4
last updated 02/27/2006
by Mary Frances McLaughlin
