Primary Sources for United States History

An important source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments throughout the world in the 20th century focusing on Africa and the Middle East.

An important source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments throughout the world in the 20th century focusing on China, Far East (general), Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Philippine Republic, and Vietnam. The files on China, Japan, and Vietnam.

An important source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments throughout the world in the 20th century focusing on Europe and Latin America.

The Congressional Hearings Digital Collection is a collection of published and unpublished hearings held by Congress. Congressional committee hearings may be classified into four types: legislative, oversight, investigative, and confirmation.

The Congressional Research Digital Collection, or CRDC, is a collection of research materials – CRS Reports and Committee Prints - created for Congress.

Important declassified U.S. government documents providing vital primary source material to advance research in twentieth century history, politics, and international relations.

Contains documents produced by Federal government departments, agencies, and commissions, spanning the years from our nation's founding through the mid-20th century.... part 1, covering 1789-1932; part 2, covering 1933-1939; part 3, covering 1940-1942

During World War II and the first decade and a half of the Cold War, the Office of Strategic Services and the State Department assigned leading scholars to write special, classified reports about Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, Latin America, and Africa. At the time, the reports helped to shape U.S. foreign policy decisions, and, now, the over 3,500 reports in this module provide an excellent source for studying the major areas of the World during the period from 1941 to 1961.

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, including the American State Papers, contains the reports and documents published by Congress. It's called the Serial Set because it was published in serial fashion... meaning that there are more than 15,000 volumes in this series now!

The State Department Diplomatic Post Records consist of correspondence and reports from American diplomats stationed around the world. The following countries or cities are represented in this module: Japan; Cuba; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Iran; Iraq; Beirut; Jerusalem; Aden; Lebanon; Russia and the Soviet Union.

U.S. Military Intelligence Reports offer comprehensive documentation of developments and events in the key nations of the world during the period from World War I to the final campaigns of World War II. This module contains the U.S. Military Intelligence reports for China, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Soviet Union, Biweekly Intelligence Summaries, and Combat Estimates.

Features the records of the Associated Press’s Saigon Bureau. Over 40 years ago, as Saigon was falling to the communists and the U.S. was evacuating Vietnam, Peter Arnett saved the records of the AP’s Saigon Bureau and brought them back to the United States. Until ProQuest scanned them and digitized them in History Vault, they were never before available to the public. Other key collections in this module include records of the Military Assistance and Advisory Command, Vietnam (MACV); General William Westmoreland Papers, and National Security Files from the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford administrations.

This module includes President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Map Room Files, Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Records of the War Department Operations Division, U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports, Records of the Office of War Information, Papers of the War Refugee Board, George C. Marshall Papers, and numerous other collections.