• A good starting point is always The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, eds Thomas Paterson et al. REF E183.7; for Vietnam-related research see Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, ed. Spencer Tucker, REF DS577.7.
 
 

Primary Sources at Booth Library

• Rand Reports (Stacks AS 36). Reports prepared by the Rand Corporation, 1960s-1980s, for a variety of government agencies, includes many reports dealing directly or indirectly with US foreign policy, especially with US-Sino, Soviet and Vietnamese relations; titles include “Viet Cong Repression and It’s Implications for the Future” (1970), “Economic Aid and International Cost Sharing” (1965).
• FRUS---Foreign Relations of the United States series, produced by the Historian’s Office of the U.S. State Department, provides a documentary history of US foreign relations from the 1930s to the 1970s. Multiple volumes. Stacks JX 233.A3. Also available online at http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/.
• State Department, Bulletins and Dispatches. PER JX 232. Published announcements and dispatches produced by the State Department. Indexed.
• Council on Foreign Relations, United States and the World. Indexed, yearly review of US international relations.

• Papers of Woodrow Wilson.  Stacks: E660.
• Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence.   Stacks DA 566.9.C5 A4
• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.  Stacks E 302.F82 1959
• The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt.   Stacks E 806.R749
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (1929-97).   Stacks J 80.A283
• Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs. 3 vols, documentary history produced by FDR Library. E806 .R74
• Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 13 vols. Stacks E806 .R74.
• Letters of Theordore Roosevelt. 8 vols. E757. R7958.
• Report of the Congressional Committee Committee investigating Iran-Contra Affair. 27 vols. Stacks E876 .U54
• Arthur Schlesinger, Dynamics of World Power, A Documentary History of US Foreign Relations, 1945-1975. 4 vols. Stacks E744.
• State Department, American Foreign Policy: The Basic Documents, 1959-1990.  Stacks JX1471 .A33.
• Vital Speeches of the Day   Per PN 6121.V5

 

Newspapers

• The New York Times   Micro AN 2.N425X (indexed)
• The London Times   Micro AN 4.T45X (indexed)

Electronic Indexes at Booth Library

• America: History and Life A terrific database, providing citations to history journal articles. Emphasis is on American history. Online database has coverage from 1964 to present.
• Historical Abstracts. Provides citations to history journal articles. Emphasis is on world history. Online database has coverage from 1972 to present. Booth Library also has print coverage from 1955 to present. Ref D 299.H5
• Social Sciences Index, citations and abstracts of journal articles in all areas of the social sciences. 1983 to present. Print volumes provide coverage for 1974-1997, Ref AI S61X
• Humanities Index, citations and abstracts of journal articles in the field of humanities; including history. Online database has coverage from 1984 to present. Print volumes provide coverage for 1974-1997, Ref AI 3.H8X.
• InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index ASAP, abstracts and full text articles from scholarly and general-interest journals in the social sciences and humanities. Online database has coverage from 1980 to present.
• Dissertation Abstracts, citations and short abstracts of every doctoral dissertation completed in the United States for the last 150 years.
• American Periodicals Series, a wonderful collection of hundreds of journals, while few deal directly with foreign affairs, the data base can be easily searched.

On the WWW

General Sources

• National Archives and Records Administration's Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is available at http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/ Use the locator to search the National Archives’ holdings. The locator provides online access to the materials (text and photographs) available in digital copies.
• Listservs:
H-Net sponsors electronic discussion groups for different History subjects. H-diplo, a list-serve for diplomatic historians, is located at http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/.  For information on the different lists and sign-up instructions visit their web page at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/.
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the primary organization for US Diplomatic Historians, http://www.shafr.org/.
• FRUS---Foreign Relations of the United States series, produced by the Historian’s Office of the U.S. State Department, provides a documentary history of US foreign relations from the 1930s to the 1970s. Multiple volumes. available online at http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/. Hardcopies at Booth Library: Stacks JX 233.A3.

Specialized Document Collections

World War I Document Archives, http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi. Documents and a photo archives containing nearly a thousand images.
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu. Over 10,000 digitized documents, many relating to diplomatic history and World War II. Includes an online exhibition on the “special relationship” between Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
Harry S. Truman Archives. http://www.trumanlibrary.org. Over four hundred documents and images relating to the Truman presidency, World War II, and the Cold War.
The National Security Archive. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/. Created and maintained by the National Security Archive, Washington, D.C. Access to declassified State Department and CIA documents.
VENONA Documents. http://www.nsa.gov/venona/index.cfm. Access to VENONA intercepts, the U.S. Signals Intelligence’s initiative to intercept text of Soviet KGB and GRU messages from the 1940's. Contains fascinating insights into Soviet efforts to infiltrate US government.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu. Access to over 60 oral histories, entries from Johnson’s diary, transcriptions of phone conversations and more.

The World Factbook. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html. Frequently updated geographical, political, historical, social, and economic information on virtually every country in the world. Produced by the CIA.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: A Bipolar World. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook46.html#The%20Cold%20War. Primary Sources and links related to a variety of Diplomatic History topics.
 

SHAFR Links/Primary Document Collections

Cold War. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm

Cuban Missile Crisis. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cuba.htm

Atomic Bomb. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hiroshim.htm

Human Rights. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/humrites.htm

Vietnam. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam.htm

Nuclear Weapons. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/nukes.htm

The Middle East. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/meres.htm