Freedom of Information Archive

As of February 2016 the database included the following groups of U.S. government records: 

• The Foreign Relations of the United States (1945-1980) includes 75,263 documents to date, from a curated collection of the most important declassified documents selected by State Department historians with access to every government department and agency. It also includes many documents drawn from the personal papers of Presidents and key policymakers.
• The State Department Central Foreign Policy Files (1973- ) As an early adopter of electronic record systems, the U.S. Department of State has highly structured communications. This core collection continues up to the present -- it was the source of the Wikileaks cables, for instance. But whereas Wikileaks was a relatively small and non-random sample (~7% of all cables), we have over 2.6 million cable records, including: ~1.76 million fully released cables, ~411k unreleased cables for which we have metadata, and over 500k records with metadata for documents that were delivered by diplomatic pouch.
• Henry Kissinger Telephone Conversations (1973-1976) . The database holds 4,552 transcripts of Kissinger telephone conversations during his tenure as Secretary of State. A collection from a high-level policymaker, it affords users the ability to draw connections and contrasts with the larger institutional archives in FRUS and the State Department Central Foreign Policy Files. 
• The Hillary Clinton Emails (2009-2012). As of November 2015 the database held over 16,246 documents comprising 40,737 individual email messages as released through the State Department’s FOIA Reading Room. History Lab researchers have done extensive work to parse these documents, which were originally released as PDFs, in order to extract structured information for conducting data analyses.