Browse

Browse
Home > Libraries > Government Documents Center > Explore GovDocs > Results

Explore Government Documents

Results filtered by "Historic Documents"
Democracy in America/DeTocqueville (UVa)
  • Full text of book documenting Alexis de Tocqueville's 1831 trip
  • Supplemented by commentaries on culture, race, women and religion
  • Interactive map
Did NATO Win the Cold War? (Vojtech Mastny)
  • Twenty-three declassified documents on the history of the Cold war from U.S. and NATO archives
  • Supplements article in the May-June 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs
Digital National Security Archive (UMich Only)
  • Full text of declassified federal documents issued during the Cold War period
  • Many of the documents issued by the State Department, Defense Department, and Central Intelligence Agency
  • Subjects include: Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis, China, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Guatemala, Intelligence Community, Iran-Contra Affair, Iraqgate, 1980-94, Iranian Revolution, Japan, 1960-1992, Kissinger Transcripts, Military Uses of Space,
Directory of Digitized Collections (UNESCO/IFLA)
  • Index to web sites, primarily on historical and artistic subjects around the world
  • Samples include Connecticut history, Hungarian electronic library, North American slave narratives, Gulliver's travels
  • Index if browsable and search
  • Entries provide good annotations and links to the web site
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress (Univ. of So. Carolina)
  • 1789 Congressional debates on the formation of the Cabinet
  • Text of bills
  • Notes from Members of the first congress
Documents from the Continental Congress
  • Includes Constitutional Convention
  • Approximately 500 broadsides preserved by the Library of Congress
  • Searchable and browsable
  • May be slow to retrieve
Documents in Military History (Hillsdale College)
    • This content is no longer available at its original address. The link above is to the archive version(s) at the Internet Archive
    • Over 300 documents on warfare from Ancient History through the 19th Century
  • Includes battle accounts and treaties
  • Laws of War for the Union Army during the American Civil War
Dred Scott Digital Project (Washington University)
  • Eighty-five documents surround Dred and Harriet Scott's petition to the St. Louis Circuit Court for emancipation from slavery
  • Case lasted between 1846 and 1857; court affirmed slavery status; led in part to the Civil War
Eisenhower Administration, 1953-61

Estimative Products on Vietnam, 1948-1975
  • Thirty-eight declassified documents from the CIA on the political situation in Vietnam and Cambodia before the during the South Vietnamese War
  • Assessments of North Vietnamese, Soviet, and Chinese intentions
  • Statistics, maps and letters
  • The full text of 174 documents are available on the CIA web site at http://www.foia.cia.gov/nic_vietnam_collection.asp
 
Modify Search
Filter by SubTopic
New Search
Browse by Topic