US Foreign Policy Resources
This guide will help you find primary and secondary sources relating to US Foreign Policy
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Collections of Primary Sources
Local Resources
- Louisiana GumboDigital collection of historic Louisiana photographs and lesson plans
- NewsBank InfoWebAn archive of local, national and international news
Collections on World History
The Americas
Africa
- AfricaFocus: Sights and Sounds of a ContinentA collection curated by the University of Wisconsin of primary and secondary sources
Asia
- Chinese PamphletsPolitical communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China
- CIA's China CollectionThis collection of over 70 National Intelligence Estimates on China is the most extensive single selection of intelligence analyses the United States Government ever has released
- International Dunhuang Project"A ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and archeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programs"
Europe
- Biblioteca Digital HispanicaThe collection of the Digital Library of Spain - available in English
- EuroDocsWestern European primary historical documents
- Historical Directories of England and WalesA digital collection of the trade directories of England and Wales. 1766-1919
- Middle English DictionaryIts 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available.
The Middle East
- Abstracta IranicaA selective and critical bibliography for the Iranian-Aryan world, published an annual supplement to the journal Studia Iranica by the French Research Institute in Iran
- ArchnetOnline community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world
- Bibliotheca AlexandrinaContains extensive collections of documents and resources on Egyptian and Middle Eastern history
Miscellaneous
- HathiTrust Digital Library ** This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world
- Images of ColonialismCollection of visual record of early European contact with Asia and Africa
- Visualizing CulturesThe VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world - or imagined it to be
Presidential Libraries
The presidential libraries have a number of useful resources, including digitized copies of primary documents.