United
States Diplomatic History Since 1914
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Useful
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• Foreign Affairs -- The nation's premier journal devoted exclusively to international relations. A product of the Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs has helped to shape public opinion for close to 80 years.
• Cold War International History Project -- Includes useful archive of English
translations of the most recent Cold War documents from international archives, the
CWIHP Bulletin, and working papers interpreting the latest research.
• National Security Archive -- Focus on declassified documents illustrating U.S.
national security policy. Particularly useful are the edited and searchable document
collections (access for UVa students is through the UVa Library's website).
• CNN's Cold War -- Companion website for CNN's Cold War series.
• Cold War Museum -- Includes interesting online exhibits.
• U.S. Presidential Libraries -- Libraries and museums of all U.S. presidents from
Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton. Online content varies.
• Foreign Relations of the United States -- The official historical record of U.S. foreign
relations compiled by the Historians' Office at the U.S. Department of State.
• CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence -- CIA Briefings of Presidential candidates.
• CIA's Document Release Center -- The official site for the release of Freedom of
Information documents. Particularly useful is the popular document section.
• Prague Spring 1968 -- Site devoted to the uprisings in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Includes movie footage and eyewitness recollections.
• Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact -- This site is still relatively new and
small, but includes recently declassified documents relating specifically to NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
• NATO Archives/NATO Strategy Documents -- NATO strategy documents with
commentary.
• U-2 and satellite photos -- large collection of declassified surveillance imagery
hosted by the Federation of American Scientists. Of particular note are the U-2 and
Corona (first U.S. surveillance satellite).