LibGuides: U.S. Foreign Relations 1900-Present: 2. Historic Government Publications

Historic American Government Publications

The resources on this page include both online publications and indexes for discovering more publications.

U.S. Documents Masterfile
An electronic guide to federal, state, local and international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication, in a single searchable database.

US Congressional Serial Set 1817-1994
Digitized reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and executive branch/agency publications.

Congressional Publications
A major online resource for information on all aspects of Congressional work. Includes hearing transcripts, committee reports, bills, CRS Reports, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and public laws.

Foreign Relations of the United States
Documents from the Truman administration to Reagan. Earlier volumes available and searchable from the University of Wisconsin's Digital Collections
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
A digital library of pre-18th to 20th century documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government, with annotations, indexes, and links to supporting materials.

Digital National Security Archive
The Digital National Security Archive, with over 35,000 documents, provides access to what has been called "the largest collection of contemporary declassified national security information outside the United States Government".

Foreign Relations of the United States (various titles) 1861-
This print series presents the official declassifed historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Available in the Tisch Books Stacks, call no: JX 233 .A3.

National Security Agency: Declassification & Transparency
As the NSA reviews records under the Freedom of Information Act or Mandatory Declassification Review provisions of Executive Order 13526, they make the material available to the public this website.
Declassified/Released Document Collections of the Department of State
Includes documents declassified and made public as a result of the Freedom of Information Act.
FOIA Electronic Reading Room of the CIA
Includes CIA documents declassified and made public as a result of the Freedom of Information Act.
(FOIA) The Vault: Electronic Reading Room of the FBI
Includes FBI documents declassified and made public as a result of the Freedom of Information Act.
The China Collection (CIA)
This collection of over seventy National Intelligence Estimates on China is the most extensive single selection of intelligence analyses the United States Government ever has released. This recently declassified collection represents the most authoritative intelligence assessments of the United States Government and thus constitutes a unique historical record of a momentous era in China's modern history.