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Avalon Project - The Cold War
The Avalon Project is a digital library of documents relating to law, history and diplomacy. The project is part of the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library.
The Cold War - LibGuide at Tufts University
US and international primary source links
Digital Public Library of America
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Offers a single point of access to millions of freely available digitized itemsphotographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, maps, and morefrom Americas libraries, archives, and museums. In addition to a standard search engine, the portal provides searching and access by timeline, map, format, or topic.
Foreign Relations of the United States
Presents the official documentary historical record of major US foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The United States Department of State Office of the Historian offers online index searching for documents by keyword as well as limited full-text searching through the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
Harry S Truman Library + Museum
Online collections of Harry S Truman
Miller Center
The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history and strives to apply the lessons of history and civil discourse to the nation's most pressing contemporary governance challenges.
National Security Archive - Virtual Reading Room
This research tool searches the growing collection of primary-source documents the National Security Archive has published on this web site. New materials are added frequently. The listing is chronological.
Stanford Hoover Institution Digital Collections: Cold War
Digitized collections from the Hoover institution, including radio programs, speeches, photographs and more
Top Secret CIA 'Official History' of the Bay of Pigs: Revelations
From the National Security Archive
Visual Guide to the Cold War - UNC
A collection of photographs, political cartoons, posters, and movies from the United States and Soviet Union.
Wilson Center Digital Archive - International History Declassified
Cold War letters, treaties, dispatches and other primary sources, including documents relating to international crises, the roles of specific countries or areas, communist activities, notebooks of famous Russian leaders, as well as intelligence and military operations. One of the specialties of this site is "new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world."
Historical Newspapers and Other Primary Source
New York Times with Index (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. Dates of coverage: 1851-2018
Boston Globe (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. Dates of coverage: 1872-1986
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. Dates of coverage: 1881-1999
Times Digital Archive
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Search digital reproductions of articles and pages from The Times (London), including articles, editorials, and advertising. Variety of search options available including keyword, relevance, advanced, and browse by date. Dates of coverage: 1785-1985
Christian Science Monitor (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. Dates of coverage: 1908-2008
Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. Dates of coverage: 1877-2007
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. Dates of coverage: 1889-2011
Illustrated London News Historical Archive
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Access the entire run of the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full color and every article and caption is full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations. Dates of coverage: 1842-2003
Global Newsstream
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Enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites. Dates of coverage: 1980-current
World News Digest (Facts on File)
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Archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly, covering all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.
US News & World Report Magazine Archive
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The U. S. News & World Report Magazine Archive (1926-1984) database consists of the influential news magazine U. S. News & World Report (1948-1984) -- plus the predecessor titles:
United States Daily
(1926-1933),
United States News
(1933-1948), and
World Report
(1946-1948). Each title features cover to cover processing, which renders all of the content from the front cover to the back cover fully searchable, including the advertisements.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
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Provides searchable access to the full text of the Times Literary Supplement and includes thousands of reviews, letters, poems, and articles. Dates of coverage: 1902-2012
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