HISTG8300 : Interwar Internationalism Reconsidered: Primary Sources
Digitized Primary Sources
- Archives direct : sources from The National Archives, UK. This link opens in a new window
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A full-text searchable suite of collections sourced from the National Archives, Kew. Includes The Nixon years, Confidential print Africa, Confidential print Latin America, Confidential print, North America, Confidential print Middle East, Foreign Office Files China, amongst others. - Archives unbound . This link opens in a new window
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Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. - Colonial state papers . This link opens in a new windowColonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Colonial State Papers integrates two important research tools as one service: Collection CO 1 from The National Archives (full name: Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers); and Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739.
- Digital National Security Archive . This link opens in a new window[Declassified U.S. government documents] Includes collections on Afghanistan, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Iran, Iraq, U.S. Presidential Directives, U.S. Intelligence community, the Cold War, Terrorism, National Security Agency.
- Documents from the Interwar PeriodA set of digitized resources compiled at Mount Holyoke.
- Documents on British policy overseas : diplomacy in the twentieth century. This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to a wide range of primary source documents from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office from the twentieth century that were selected and edited (and sometimes declassified) by the official historians of the FCO.
- EuroDocsLinks connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. In addition you will find video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery, databases, and other documentation. The sources cover a broad range of historical happenings (political, economic, social and cultural). The order of documents is chronological wherever possible
- European History Primary SourcesEuropean History Primary Sources (EHPS) is a joint initiative of the Library and the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. The purpose of EHPS is to provide an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe. As the number of digital archives on the internet continues to grow, finding and selecting digital repositories becomes increasingly difficult. EHPS strives to fill that gap by listing the most important collections of digital primary sources for the history of Europe, either as a whole or for single countries.
- The European LibraryDesigned to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, this online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries. Users can cross-search and reuse over 23,078,082 digital items and 163,053,414 bibliographic records. To facilitate further research, links are also provided to other websites in the Europeana group.
- Foreign Relations of the United States (Print 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 450 individual volumes. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies.
- Foreign Relations of the United States (Online)Browse by specific volumes or search through presidential administrations on the website of the U.S. Office of the Historian. The digitized offerings are incomplete so you'll want to check both the print and online to be thorough. NB: Columbia has a subscription to this series through HeinOnline as well: https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio5708792.001
- Gale. Primary sources This link opens in a new window
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Provides an interactive research environment that allows researchers to cross-search nine major full text historical source databases including Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO); The Making of the Modern World; and Sabin Americana, 1500-1926. - U.K. parliamentary papers This link opens in a new windowEncompasses all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, "showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed. Many contributors to the papers were found outside the official world, providing evidence or supplying memoranda to committees and commissions."
- India, Raj & Empire . This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to digital facsimiles of diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works. The dates of the documents range from 1710 to 1937. - India from crown rule to republic, 1945-1949 : records of the U.S. State Department. This link opens in a new windowIndependent India's first years were marked with turbulent events - partition, a massive exchange of population with Pakistan, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and the integration of over 500 princely states to form a united nation. This collection identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of the Subcontinent between 1945 and 1949, and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned India in the postwar period.
- ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
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Indexes information produced by or pertaining to the United States Congress from 1789 to the present. Provides full text for many titles, generally from the early 1990's to the present. Includes bills, laws, legislative histories, committee prints, House and Senate documents and reports, the Congressional Record, Code of Federal Regulations, and Federal Register. - Slavery & anti-slavery : a transnational archive. This link opens in a new window
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world. In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm.
- United Nations Cartographic SectionPresents maps and geographic information resources, provided by the United Nations. Includes general maps, deployment maps of peacekeeping operations, atlases, and other geographic information.
- United Nations Treaty CollectionContains full-text of the United Nations Treaty Series, the United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index, and the League of Nations Treaty Series, the current status of Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, and recently deposited multilateral treaties.
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