Research Guides: HIST 4399: Race, American Power, and the Cold War: Find Other Historical Sources

Other Historical Sources Online

"Race and the Cold War" Primary Source Exercise
This exercise on Race and the Cold War links to four historical sources: two newspaper editorials, an amicus curiae brief from Brown v. Board, and a report from Vice President Nixon to President Eisenhower. (Teaching the Journal of American History)
Online Documents at the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum

Digital Collections at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
Online Collections at the LBJ Presidential Library
* Click Online Collections after the Research page opens. *
Selected audio and video, photos, oral histories, telephone recordings, daily diary, and the Pentagon Papers.

Defining Documents Series Volumes cover topics such as Manifest Destiny (1803-1859); Reconstruction (1865-1877); the emergence of modern America (1874-1917); World War I (1914-1919); the 1920s; the 1930s; the 1950s; Civil Rights; the Vietnam War; and more.
Bedford Series in History and Culture
This series contains a handful of volumes related to Cold War America. Each volume gives a brief history and related primary documents on diverse topics in U.S. and World History.

U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 This link opens in a new window
Reports, documents, journals of U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 1817-1994. Every publication, over 415,000 documents, from 15th - 103rd Congresses.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
More than 100 million pages of legal history in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. Comprehensive coverage, from inception, of more than 2,000 law and law-related periodicals, as well as many current and historical government documents.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1974 This link opens in a new window
This historical archive provides 30 years of U.S. intelligence on international affairs, covering regions around the world from Asia, Africa, and Europe to Latin America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. These reports include transcribed and translated radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories--often these are first-hand reports of events as they occurred.