Databases
- Access World News Research Collection (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowOur largest general news source, with current and complete newspapers, magazines, wire services from around the world. Backfiles sometimes go back to the 1980s. Text only.
- Digital National Security Archive (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowFounded by journalists and scholars, the National Security Archive promotes open government by acting as a clearinghouse for declassified information. Primary source materials: declassified government documents, chronologies, images, bibliographies, and explanatory essays on topics related to national security.
- Foreign Affairs This link opens in a new windowFeatures articles and current news covering the political, historical and economic impacts of American foreign policy and global affairs; includes the full archive of Foreign Affairs Magazine 1922-present plus online-only content. Published by the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Foreign Policy This link opens in a new windowGlobal news magazine providing insights and analysis as well as original reporting.
- Office of Strategic Services - State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961 (Proquest History Vault) This link opens in a new window3500 reports written by experts in the State Department and OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the CIA). An excellent source for studying the major areas of the World and diplomatic history from 1941 to 1961.
- Sixties : Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 This link opens in a new windowThe Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 19601974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Focus on the United States.
Online Resources
- A Bipolar World: The Cold War 1945-1991Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebook for the Cold War era.
- Avalon Project - Cold War (Yale)Collection of full-text and translated primary source materials.
- The Wilson Center Digital ArchiveCollection of declassified documents from around the world focusing on the Cold War Era.
- The Cold War and The Marshall PlanA list of resources from the National Archives.
- Women's Oral Histories from the Soviet UnionThis publication provides a small sample of the exciting research work undertaken by women scholar/activists from eight former Soviet countries, reclaiming the voices of fourteen women whose experiences illustrate the challenges and small victories of life in soviet and post-socialist times.
- The Red TerrorThe 'Red Terror' was an officially sanctioned policy of the Soviet government during the Russian Civil War, administered by the state security organisation the Cheka between 1918-1921. The documents linked here relate to both the 'Red Terror' of the Civil War and to later treatment of political opponents - particularly those who were on the political left or anarchists.
- Harvard Project on the Soviet Social SystemThe Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.
- Tet DeclassifiedThis page displays selected documents from the declassified volume as well as other contextual images, videos, and quotes which will be updated on a periodic basis.
- The Virtual Vietnam ArchiveThe Virtual Vietnam Archive currently contains 7 million pages of scanned materials. Types of material include documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps, and collection finding aids. All non-copyrighted and digitized materials are available for users to download.